List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy

This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. The list dates from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, up until the emergence of the Battleship around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty.

"For ships which were part of the English Navy prior to 1660, see List of early warships of the English Navy."

List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1660-1688)

:"Number of main guns follows name (see Rating system of the Royal Navy)":These ships listed in the order of p162-163 "The Ship of the Line Volume I", by Brian Lavery, pub Conways, 1983, ISBN 0-85177-252-8

The Early Restoration Period (1660-1677)

This list includes several earlier ships which were "rebuilt" for the Royal Navy in this period - specifically the First Rate "Royal Prince" (in 1663), the Second Rate "Victory" (in 1666), the Third Rate "Montagu" (in 1675) and the Fourth Rates "Bonaventure" (in 1663) and "Constant Warwich" (in 1666). The process, which generally involved the dismantling in dry dock of the old ship and constructing it to a new design incorporating part of the materials from the old vessel, produced what were in effect substantially new ships with altered dimensions and sizes, and generally mounting a somewhat larger number of guns.
* First Rates
** "Royal Prince" 92 ("Rebuilt" 1663) – Taken and burnt by the Dutch 1666.
** "Charles" 96 (1668) - Renamed "St George" 1687, reclassed as 2nd Rate 1691, rebuilt 1701.
** "St Andrew" 96 (1670) - Renamed "Royal Anne" when rebuilt 1704.
** "London" 96 (1670) - BU 1701.
** "Prince" 100 (1670) - Repaired and renamed "Royal William" 1692, rebuilt 1719.
** "Royal James" 100 (1671) - Burned in action 1672.
** "Royal Charles" 100 (1673) - Repaired and renamed "Queen" 1693, rebuilt (and renamed "Royal George") 1715.
** "Royal James" 100 (1675) - Renamed "Victory" 1691, then "Royal George" 1714, then "Victory" again in 1715; burnt by accident 1721.
* Second Rates
** "Royal Katherine" 76 (1664) - Rebuilt 1702.
** "Royal Oak" 76 (1664) - Burned by the Dutch 1667.
** "Loyal London" 80 (1666) - Burned by the Dutch 1667.
** "Victory" 76 ("Rebuilt" 1666) - BU 1691.
** "French Ruby" 66 (1666) - a prize, "Le Rubis", captured from the French, hulked 1682 after storm damage and BU 1685.
** "St Michael" 90 (1669) - Re-classed as a 1st Rate 1692, then back to a 2nd Rate 1689; rebuilt (and renamed "Marlborough") 1708.
* Third Rates
** "Clove Tree" 62 (1665) - a prize, "Nagelboom", captured from the Dutch, retaken by them 1666.
** "House of Sweeds" 70 (1665) - a prize captured from the Dutch, sunk as a blockship in the Thames 1667.
** "Golden Phoenix" 70 (1665) - a prize captured from the Dutch, sunk as a blockship in the Thames 1667.
** "Slothany" 60 (1665) - a prize captured from the Dutch, hulked 1667, sold 1686.
** "Helverson" 60 (1665) - a prize captured from the Dutch, sunk as a blockship in the Medway 1667.
** "Cambridge" 64 (1666) - Wrecked 1694.
** "Warspite" 64 (1666) - Rebuilt 1702.
** "Defiance" 64 (1666) - Burned by accident 1668.
** "Rupert" 64 (1666) - Rebuilt 1703.
** "Resolution" 64 (1667) - Rebuilt 1698.
** "Monmouth" 64 (1667) - Rebuilt 1700.
** "Edgar" 72 (1668) - Rebuilt 1700.
** "Swiftsure" 66 (1673) - Rebuilt 1696.
** "Harwich" 66 (1674) - Wrecked 1691.
** "Royal Oak" 70 (1674) - Rebuilt 1713.
** "Defiance" 64 (1675) - Rebuilt 1695.
** "Arms of Rotterdam" 60 (1674) - a prize captured from the Dutch, hulked 1675, BU 1703.
** "Montagu" 62 ("Rebuilt" 1675) – Rebuilt 1698.
* Fourth Rates
** "Bonaventure" 48 ("Rebuilt" 1663) – Rebuilt again 1683.
** "West Friesland" 54 (1665) - a prize, "Westfriesland", captured from the Dutch, sold 1667.
** "Seven Oaks" 52 (1665) - a prize, "Zevenwolden", captured from the Dutch, retaken by them 1666.
** "Charles V" 52 (1665) - a prize, "Carolus Quintus", captured from the Dutch, burned by them 1667.
** "Guilder de Ruyter" 50 (1665) - a prize, "Geldersche Ruiter", captured from the Dutch, sold 1667.
** "Maria Sancta" 50 (1665) - a prize, "Sint Marie", captured from the Dutch, burned by them 1667.
** "Mars" 50 (1665) - a prize, "Mars", captured from the Dutch, sold 1667.
** "Delfe" 48 (1665) - a prize, "Delft", captured from the Dutch, sold 1668.
** "St Paul" 48 (1665) - a prize, "Sint Paulus", captured from the Dutch, burned in action 1666.
** "Hope" 44 (1665) - a prize, "Hoop", captured from the Dutch, wrecked 1666.
** "Black Spread Eagle" 44 (1665) - a prize, "Groningen", captured from the Dutch, sunk in action 1666.
** "Golden Lion" 42 (1665) - a prize, "Gouden Leeuw", captured from the Dutch, given to Guinea Company 1668.
** "Zealand" 42 (1665) - a prize, "Zeelandia", captured from the Dutch, sold 1667.
** "Unity" 42 (1665) - a prize, "Eendracht", captured from the Dutch, retaken by them 1667.
** "Young Prince" 38 (1665) - a prize, "Jonge Prins", captured from the Dutch, expended as a fireship 1666.
** "Black Bull" 36 (1665) - a prize, "Edam", captured from the Dutch, retaken and sunk by them 1666.
** "Constant Warwick" 42 ("Rebuilt" 1666) – Captured by the French 1691.
** "St Patrick" 48 (1666) - Captured by the Dutch 1667.
** "Greenwich" 54 (1666) - Rebuilt 1699.
** "St David" 54 (1667) - Sunk at Portsmouth 1690, raised but sold 1713.
** "Stathouse van Harlem" 46 (1667) - a prize, "Raadhuis van Haarlem", captured from the Dutch, sunk as a breakwater at Sheerness 1690.
** "Stavoreen" 48 (1672) - a prize captured from the Dutch, sold 1682.
** "Arms of Terver" 48 (1673) - a prize captured from the Dutch, sold 1682.
** "Oxford" 54 (1674) - Rebuilt 1702.
** "Woolwich" 54 (1675) - Rebuilt 1702.
** "Kingfisher" 46 (1675) - a specialised Fourth Rate designed for a role similar to that of the Q-ships of 1914-18, rather than for the battle fleet; rebuilt 1699.The above list excludes two smaller Fourth Rates not designed for the line of battle - the galley-frigates "Charles Galley" and "James Galley" of 1676. It also excludes four Fifth Rates of 36 guns (the "Falcon" and "Sweepstakes" of 1666, the "Nonsuch" of 1668, and the "Phoenix" of 1671) which were re-classed as 42-gun Fourth Rates some years after their original completion, but later reverted to being Fifth Rates.

The Thirty Ships of 1677

* First Rate of 100 Guns
** "Britannia" 100 (c. 1682) - BU 1715
* Second Rates of 90 Guns
** "Vanguard" 90 (1678) - Wrecked in the Great Storm of 1703
** "Windsor Castle" 90 (1678) - Wrecked 1693
** "Duchess" 90 (1679) - Renamed "Princess Anne" 1701, renamed "Windsor Castle" 1702, renamed "Blenheim" 1706
** "Sandwich" 90 (1679)
** "Albemarle" 90 (1680) - Renamed "Union" 1709, BU 1749
** "Duke" 90 (1682) - Renamed "Prince George" 1701?
** "Ossory" 90 (1682) - Renamed "Prince" 1705
** "Neptune" 90 (1683)
** "Coronation" 90 (1685) - Wrecked 1691
* Third Rates of 70 Guns
** "Lenox" 70 (1678)
** "Hampton Court" 70 (1678)
** "Anne" 70 (1678) - Burnt 1690
** "Captain" 70 (1678)
** "Restoration" 70 (1678) - Wrecked in the Great Storm of 1703
** "Berwick" 70 (1679)
** "Burford" 70 (1679)
** "Eagle" 70 (1679)
** "Expedition" 70 (1679) - Renamed "Prince Frederick" 1715, sold 1784
** "Grafton" 70 (1679)
** "Pendennis" 70 (1679) - Wrecked 1689
** "Northumberland" 70 (1679) - Wrecked in the Great Storm of 1703
** "Essex" 70 (1679) - BU 1736 for rebuild
** "Kent" 70 (1679)
** "Exeter" 70 (1680) - Hulked 1691
** "Suffolk" 70 (1680) - BU by 1765
** "Hope" 70 (1678) - Captured 1695
** "Elizabeth" 70 (1679) - rebuilt 1703
** "Stirling Castle" 70 (1679) - Wrecked in the Great Storm of 1703
** "Breda" 70 (c. 1679) - Burnt 1690

New Fourth rates (1683-1688)

* "Mordaunt" 46 (c. 1681) – Built privately and purchased 1683. Wrecked 1693
* "Deptford" 50 (1687) - BU 1700 for rebuild
* "St Albans" 50 (1687) - Wrecked 1693
* "Sedgemoor" 50 (1687) - Wrecked 1689

Major rebuilds (1677-1688)

* "Royal Sovereign" 100 (1685) – burnt by accident 1697
* "Mary" 62 (1688) - Wrecked 1703
* "Tiger" 44 (1681) – Rebuilt 1701
* "Bonaventure" 40 (1683) – rebuilt 1699
* "Hampshire" 46 (1686) - Sunk in action 26 August 1697.
* "Assistance" 48 (1687) – Rebuilt 1699

Captures - Ex-Algerines

: The following ships are not listed in "The Ship of the Line Volume I", by Brian Lavery, but are listed in Admiralty records and other sources. All were added tothe Royal Navy as Fourth Rates.
* "Marigold" 44 (ex-Algerine "Marygold", captured 28 October 1677) - Wrecked 1679.
* "Tiger Prize" 48 (ex-Algerine, captured 1 April 1678) - Sunk as a breakwater 1696.
* "Golden Horse" 46 (ex-Algerine "Golden Horse", captured 9 April 1681) - Sunk as a breakwater 1688.
* "Half Moon" 44 (ex-Algerine "Half Moon", captured 9 September 1681) - Burnt by accident 1686.
* "Two Lions" 44 (ex-Algerine "Two Lions", captured 16 September 1681) - Sold 1688.

List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1688-1697)

:"Number of main guns follows name (see Rating system of the Royal Navy)":Except where stated otherwise, these ships are listed in the order of p163-165 "The Ship of the Line Volume I", by Brian Lavery, pub Conways, 1983, ISBN 0-85177-252-8

The "Twenty-Seven" Ships Programme of 1691

This Programme was approved by Parliament on 10 October 1690. While nominally it comprised seventeen Third Rates of 80 guns and ten Fourth Rates of 60 guns, funds for three Third Rates of 70 guns were included in the Programme, which should thus strictly speaking refer to Thirty Ships.
* Two-Decker Third Rates of 80 Guns
** "Devonshire" 80 (1692) - Blew up at the Battle at The Lizard, 1707
** "Cornwall" 80 (1692)
** "Boyne" 80 (1692) - BU by 1763
** "Russell" 80 (1692)
** "Norfolk" 80 (1693)
** "Humber" 80 (1693)
** "Sussex" 80 (1693) - Wrecked 1694
** "Torbay" 80 (1693)
** "Lancaster" 80 (1694)
** "Dorsetshire" 80 (1694)
** "Cambridge" 80 (1695)
** "Chichester" 80 (1695)
** "Newark" 80 (1695)
* Three-Decker Third Rates of 80 Guns. These four were originally intended to be two-deckers, like the other thirteen, but were completed as three-deckers.
** "Shrewsbury" 80 (1695)
** "Cumberland" 80 (1695) - Captured by France at the Battle at The Lizard, 1707, to Genoa 1715, to Spain 1717 as "Principe de Asturias" 70, captured by Britain at the Battle of Cape Passaro, 1718, to Austria 1720 as "San Carlos", BU 1733
** "Ranelagh" 80 (1697) - Renamed "Princess Caroline" 1728
** "Somerset" 80 (1698) - BU 1740
* Third rates of 70 Guns
** "Bredah" 70 (1692)
** "Ipswich" 70 (1693)
** "Yarmouth" 70 (1695)
* Fourth rates of 60 Guns
** "Medway" 60 (1693)
** "Carlisle" 60 (1693) - Wrecked 1696
** "Winchester" 60 (1693) - Sank 1695
** "Canterbury" 60 (1693)
** "Sunderland" 60 (1694) - Scuttled 1737
** "Pembroke" 60 (1694) - Captured 1709
** "Gloucester" 60 (1695) - BU 1731
** "Windsor" 60 (1695)
** "Kingston" 60 (1697)
** "Exeter" 60 (1697)

Other Third Rates

* 70-Gun Ships, Ordered 1695
** "Bedford" 70 (1698) – Rebuilt 1741
** "Orford" 70 (1698) – Rebuilt 1712
** "Nassau" 70 (1699) - Wrecked 1706
** "Revenge" 70 (1699) – Renamed "Buckingham" 1711, hulk 1727, scuttled as a foundation 1745
* 64-Gun Ship
** "Dreadnought" 64 (1691) – Reduced to Fourth rate 1697, rebuilt 1706

econd Rates of 90 guns, ordered 1695

** "Association" 90 (1697) - Wrecked 1707
** "Barfleur" 90 (1697) – rebuilt 1716 at 80-gun ship
** "Namur" 90 (1697) – rebuilt 1729
** "Triumph" 90 (1698) - Renamed "Prince" 1714, rebuilt 1750

Fourth Rates of 50 guns

:The split between 123 ft groups and 130 ft groups is not in "Lavery", but in the previous version of this list on Wikipedia. However the split is supported by data in "The 50-Gun Ship".
* Ordered 1690-92 (123 ft group)
** "Chatham" (1691) - BU 1718 for rebuild
** "Centurion" (1691) - BU 1728 for rebuild
** "Chester" (1691) - Captured by France at the Battle at The Lizard, 1707
** "Norwich" (1691) - Wrecked 1692
** "Weymouth" (1693) - BU 1717 for rebuild
** "Falmouth" (1693) - Captured by France 1704
** "Rochester" (1693) - BU 1714 for rebuild
** "Portland" (1693) - BU 1719 for rebuild
** "Southampton" (1693) - BU 1699 for rebuild
** "Norwich" (1693) - BU 1712 for rebuild
** "Dartmouth" (1693) - Captured by France 1695, recaptured 1702, renamed "Vigo", wrecked 1703
** "Anglesea" (1694) - BU 1719
* Ordered 1693 (130 ft group)
** "Colchester" (1694) - Wrecked 1704
** "Romney" (1695) - Wrecked 1707
** "Lichfield" (1695) - BU 1720 for rebuild
** "Lincoln" (1695) - Sank 1703
** "Coventry" (1695) - Captured by France 1704, recaptured 1709
** "Severn" (1695) - BU 1734 for rebuild
** "Burlington" (1695) - BU 1733
* Ordered 1694 (130 ft group)
** "Harwich" (1695) - Wrecked 1700
** "Pendennis" (1695) - Captured by France 1705
* Ordered 1695 (130 ft group)
** "Blackwall" (1696) - Captured by France 1705
** "Guernsey" (1696) - BU 1716 for rebuild
** "Nonsuch" (1696) - BU 1716 for rebuild
** "Warwick" (1696) - BU 1709 for rebuild
** "Hampshire" 50 (1698) - BU 1739
** "Winchester" 50 (1698) - BU 1716 for rebuild
** "Salisbury" 50 (1698) - Captured by France 1703, recaptured 1708, renamed "Salisbury Prize", renamed "Preston" 1716, BU 1739 for rebuild
** "Worcester" 50 (1698) - BU 1713 for rebuild
** "Dartmouth" 42 (1698) - BU 1714 for rebuild
** "Jersey" 50 (1698) – Hulked 1731, sunk 1763
** "Carlisle" 50 (1698) - Blew up 1700
** "Tilbury" 50 (1699) - BU 1726 for rebuild
* Other 50-Gun Ships (purchased)
** "Falkland" (c. 1690)- Built by Holland at Newcastle, New England and purchased 1696, rebuilt 1702

Major Rebuilds

* First Rates
** "Royal William" 100 (1692) – ex-"Prince", rebuilt 1719.
** "Queen" 100 (1693) – ex-"Royal Charles, rebuilt 1715, renamed "Royal George"
* "Victory" 100 (1695) – ex-"Royal James", burnt 1721 and BU
* Third Rates
** "Royal Oak" 70 (1690) – Rebuilt 1713
** "Defiance" 64 (1695) - Rebuilt 1707
** "Swiftsure" 66 (1696) – rebuilt 1716 and renamed "Revenge"
* Fourth Rates
** "Dragon" 46 (1690) - Rebuilt 1707.
** "Bristol" 50 (1693) – Captured 1709
** "Dover" 50 (1695) – Rebuilt 1716

Captured ships, War of 1689-1697

* "Content" 70 (1686) – ex-French captured 29 January 1695, hulk 1703, sold 1715.
* "Ruby Prize" 48 (1695) – ex-French captured 1695, sold 1698.
* "Trident" 58 (1695) - ex-French, captured 29 January 1695, scuttled as breakwater 1701.
* "Medway Prize" 50 (1697) - ex-French privateer, captured 30 April 1697 and then purchased for the Navy 20 August 1697, hulk 1699, scuttled as a foundation 1712.

List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1697-1719)

:"Number of main guns follows name (see Rating system of the Royal Navy)":Except where stated otherwise, these ships are listed in the order of p165-169 "The Ship of the Line Volume I", by Brian Lavery, pub Conways, 1983, ISBN 0-85177-252-8

First Rates of 100 Guns, Rebuilt 1697-1719

* "Royal Sovereign" 100 (1701) – BU 1768
* "Royal Anne" 100 (1703) – ex-"St Andrew", BU 1757
* "London" 100 (1706) - Enlarged 1721 to 1,711 tons, BU 1747
* "Royal George" 100 (1715) – ex-"Queen", renamed "Royal Anne" 1756, BU 1767
* "Britannia" 100 (1719) – Harbour service 1745, BU 1749
* "Royal William" 100 (1719) – reduced to 84 guns, BU 1813

New Ships, Pre-Establishment, 1697-1706

* Third Rates of 70 Guns
** "Northumberland" 70 (1705) - Rebuilt 1721
** "Stirling Castle" 70 (1705) - Rebuilt 1723
** "Resolution" 70 (1705) – Run ashore 1707
** "Nassau" 70 (1707) – Rebuilt 1740
** "Elizabeth" 70 (1706) - Rebuilt 1737
** "Restoration" 70 (1706) – Wrecked 1711
* Fourth Rates of 60 Guns
** "Nottingham" 60 (1703) – rebuilt 1719
** "Mary" 60 (1704) – Rebuilt 1742 and renamed "Princess Mary"
** "York" 60 (1706) Lengthened 1738, sunk as a breakwater 1750
* Fourth Rates of 50 Guns, 130ft group
** "Swallow" 50 (1703) – Rebuilt 1719
** "Antelope" 50 (1703) – Rebuilt 1741
** "Leopard" 50 (1703) – Rebuilt 1721
** "Panther" 50 (1703) – Rebuilt 1716
** "Newcastle" 50 (1704) – Rebuilt 1732
** "Reserve" 50 (1704) - Renamed "Sutherland" 1716, hospital ship 1741, BU 1754
** "Saint Albans" 50 (1706) – Rebuilt 1737
** "Colchester" 50 (1707) – Rebuilt 1721

Rebuilds, Pre-Establishment, 1697-1706

* Second Rates of 90 Guns
** "Prince George" 90 (1701) – ex-"Duke", rebuilt 1723
** "St George" 90 (1701) – ex-"Charles", rebuilt 1740
** "Royal Katherine" 90 (1702) – Renamed "Ramillies" 1706, rebuilt 1749
** "Union" 90 (1704) – ex-"Albemarle", rebuilt 1726
* Third Rates of 80 Guns
** "Devonshire" 80 (1704) – Blown up in action 1707
** "Chichester" 80 (1706) – BU 1749
** "Cornwall" 80 (1706) – Rebuilt 1726
* Third Rates of 70 Guns
** "Resolution" 70 (1698) – Foundered 1703
** "Burford" 70 (1699) – Wrecked 1719
** "Eagle" 70 (1699) – Wrecked 1707
** "Expedition" 70 (1699) – Rebuilt 1714 and renamed "Prince Frederick"
** "Kent" 70 (1699) – Rebuilt 1724
** "Stirling Castle" 70 (1699) – Wrecked 1703
** "Suffolk" 70 (1699) - Rebuilt 1719
** "Berwick" 70 (1700) – Hulked 1715, BU 1723
** "Edgar" 70 (1700) - Rebuilt 1709
** "Essex" 70 (1700) - Rebuilt 1713
** "Grafton" 70 (1700) – Captured 1707
** "Hampton Court" 70 (1701) – Captured 1707
** "Lenox" 70 (1701) - Rebuilt 1723
** "Northumberland" 70 (1702) – Wrecked 1703
** "Restoration" 70 (1702) - Wrecked 1703
** "Elizabeth" 70 (1704) - Captured 1704
* Third Rates of 66 Guns
** "Monmouth" 66 (1700) – Rebuilt 1718
** "Warspite" 66 (1702) – Renamed "Edinburgh", rebuilt 1721
** "Rupert" 66 (1703) – "Rebuild" of 1666 "Rupert" to different design, reduced to Fourth Rate 1716, BU 1736 (then "rebuilt" again from 1737 to 1740)
** "Defiance" 66 (1707) - Reduced to Fourth Rate 1716, hulk 1743, BU 1749
* Fourth Rates of 60 Guns
** "Montague" 60 (1698) – Rebuilt 1716
** "Monck" 60 (1702) – Wrecked 1720
** "Dunkirk" 60 (1704) – Rebuilt 1734
** "Plymouth" 60 (1705) – Foundered 1705
** "Dreadnought" 60 (1706) – Enlarged 1722, hulk 1740, BU 1748
* Fourth Rates of 46-54 Guns
** "Advice" (1698) – Captured 1711
** HMS|Assistance|1699|2 (1699) - Rebuilt 1712
** "Bonaventure" (1699) - Rebuilt 1711
** "Greenwich" (1699) - Rebuilt 1730
** HMS|Kingfisher|1699|2 (1699) – Hulked 1706, BU 1728
** HMS|Deptford|1700|2 (1700) - Rebuilt 1719
** "Southampton" (1700) – Hulked 1728, BU 1771
** HMS|Reserve|1701|2 (1701) – Foundered 1703
** "Tiger" (1702) - Rebuilt 1722
** "Falkland" (1702) - Rebuilt 1720
** HMS|Crown|1704|2 (1704) – Wrecked 1719
** HMS|Ruby|1706|2 (1706) – Captured 1707

1706 Establishment

The 1706 Establishment established a desired set of principal dimensions for each 'class' (i.e. type) of warship from the 40-gun Fifth Rate up to the 90-gun Second Rate (First Rates and ships of less than 40 guns were not covered by the 1706 Establishment). As only the principal dimensions were specified, the design of individual ships remained with the Master Shipwright in each Dockyard.
* Second Rates of 90 GunsThe seven Second Rates of this Establishment were ordered as 96-gun vessels under the ordnance specification of the 1703 Guns Establishment, but the subsequent 1716 Guns Establishment reduced this armament to 90 guns.
** "Marlborough" 90 (1706) – ex-"St Michael", rebuilt 1732
** "Blenheim" 90 (1709) – ex-"Duchess", BU 1763
** "Neptune" 90 (1710) - Rebuilt 1730
** "Vanguard" 90 (1710) - Rebuilt 1739 and renamed "Duke"
** "Princess" 90 (1711) – ex-"Ossory", renamed "Princess Royal" 1728, BU 1773
** "Sandwich" 90 (1712) – BU 1770
** "Barfleur" 90 (1716) – Hulked 1764, BU 1783
* Third Rates of 80 GunsThe ten three-decker Third Rates of this Establishment were ordered as 80-gun vessels under the ordnance specification of the 1703 Guns Establishment, while the subsequent 1716 Guns Establishment retained this total (while making slight adjustments).
** "Boyne" 80 (1708) - Rebuilt 1739
** "Humber" 80 (1708) - Rebuilt 1726 and renamed "Princess Amelia"
** "Russell" 80 (1709) - Rebuilt 1735
** "Cumberland" 80 (1710) - BU 1731 and rebuilt 1739
** "Devonshire" 80 (1710) – Hulk 1740, sold 1760
** "Dorsetshire" 80 (1712) – Sold 1749
** "Shrewsbury" 80 (1713) – BU 1749
** "Cambridge" 80 (1715) – BU 1749
** "Torbay" 80 (1719) – BU 1749
** "Newark" 80 (1717) – Rebuilt 1747
* Third Rates of 70 Guns
** "Resolution" 70 (1708) - Wrecked 1711
** "Captain" 70 (1708) – Rebuilt 1722
** "Grafton" 70 (1709) - Rebuilt 1725
** "Hampton Court" 70 (1709) - Rebuilt 1744
** "Edgar" 70 (1709) – Burnt 1711
** "Yarmouth" 70 (1709) – Hulked 1740
** "Orford" 70 (1713) – Rebuilt 1727
** "Royal Oak" 70 (1713) - Rebuilt 1741
** "Expedition" 70 (1714) – Renamed "Prince Frederick" 1715, rebuilt 1740
** "Monmouth" 70 (1718) – Rebuilt 1742
** "Revenge" 70 (1718) – Rebuilt 1742
** "Suffolk" 70 (1718) - Rebuilt 1739
* Fourth Rates of 60 Guns
** "Plymouth" 60 (1708) - Rebuilt 1722
** "Lion" 60 (1709) - Rebuilt 1738
** "Gloucester" 60 (1709) - Captured 1709
** "Rippon" 60 (1712) – Rebuilt 1735
** "Montague" 60 (1716) – BU 1749
** "Medway" 60 (1718) – Hulk 1740, BU 1749
** "Kingston" 60 (1719) – Rebuilt 1740
** "Nottingham" 60 (1719) – Rebuilt 1745
* Fourth Rates of 50 GunsThe first nineteen of the following vessels were ordered between 1706 and 1714 as 54-gun vessels, armed under the 1703 Guns Establishment with a main battery of 12-pounder guns. Under the 1716 Guns Establishment, the 54-gun ship was superseded by a 50-gun ship with a main battery battery of 18-pounder guns. The last ten ships listed below were ordered from 1715 onwards which were established and armed to the 1716 Guns Establishment, and the existing 54-gun ships were re-armed to this standard as each came into a dockyard for refitting and opportunity allowed.
** "Salisbury" 50 (1707) – Rebuilt 1717
** "Dragon" 50 (1707) – Wrecked 1712
** "Falmouth" 50 (1708) - Rebuilt 1729
** "Pembroke" 50 (1710) - BU 1726
** "Ruby" 50 (1708) - Renamed "Mermaid" and reduced to 44-gun Fifth Rate May 1744, sold 1748
** "Chester" 50 (1708) – Harbour service 1743, BU 1749
** "Romney" 50 (1708) - Rebuilt 1726
** "Bonaventure" 50 (1711) – Renamed "Argyll" 1715, rebuilt 1722
** "Bristol" 50 (1711) - BU 1742, rebuilt 1746
** "Warwick" 50 (1711) - BU 1726
** "Ormonde" 50 (1711) - Renamed "Dragon" 1715, BU 1733 for rebuild
** "Assistance" 50 (1713) - Rebuilt 1725
** "Gloucester" 50 (1711) - Rebuilt 1737
** "Advice" 50 (1712) - Renamed "Milford" and reduced to 44-gun Fifth Rate 1744, sold 1749
** "Strafford" 50 (1714) - BU 1733
** "Worcester" 50 (1714) - BU 1733
** "Panther" 50 (1716) – Hulked 1743, sold 1768
** "Dartmouth" 50 (1716) – Rebuilt 1741, sold 1768
** "Rochester" 50 (1716) – Renamed "Maidstone" hospital ship 1744, BU 1748
** "Nonsuch" 50 (1717) – hulked 1740, BU 1745
** "Salisbury" 50 (1717) – rebuilt 1726
** "Winchester" 50 (1717) – Hulked 1744, BU 1781
** "St Albans" 50 (1718) – BU 1734
** "Guernsey" 50 (1717) – rebuilt 1740
** "Norwich" 50 (1718) – Renamed "Enterprise" and reduced to 44-gun Fifth Rate 1744, BU 1771
** "Deptford" 50 (1719) – Sold 1725
** "Tiger" 50 (1722) – Wrecked 1742
** "Weymouth" 50 (1719) – BU 1732
** "Swallow" 50 (1719) – BU 1728

Captured ships, War of Spanish Succession

* "Assurance" 66 (1697), ex-French "L'Assure" 60, captured May 1702, BU 1712
* "Moderate" 64 (1685) – ex-French "Modere", captured 1702, sold 1713
* "Firme" 70 (1699) – ex-French "Ferme", captured 1702, sold 1713
* "August" 70 (1699) – ex-French "Auguste", captured 19 August 1705, wrecked 1716
* "Moor" (1688) - ex-French "Maure" 54, captured 13 December 1710, scuttled as a breakwater 1716
* "Superb" 64 (1708) - ex-French "Superbe", captured 29 July 1710, BU 1732

Other captured ships (data of uncertain provenance)

: Not listed in "The Ship of the Line", by Brian Lavery
* "Triton" (c. 1697, ex-French, captured 1702) - Sold 1709
* "Hazardous" 52 (c. 1698, ex-French "Hasard", captured 1703) - Wrecked 1706
* "Falkland's Prize" (c. 1688, ex-French, captured 1704) - Sold 1706

List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1719-1741)

:"Number of main guns follows name (see Rating system of the Royal Navy)":Except where stated otherwise, these ships are listed in the order of p169-171 "The Ship of the Line Volume I", by Brian Lavery, pub Conways, 1983, ISBN 0-85177-252-8

1719 Establishment

* First Rates of 100 Guns
** "Royal Sovereign" 100 (1728) – BU 1768
* Second Rates of 90 Guns
** "Prince George" 90 (1723) – Burnt by accident 1768
** "Union" 90 (1726) – BU 1749
** "Namur" 90 (1729) – Reduced to 74 guns 1745, wrecked 1749
** "Neptune" 90 (1730) – Renamed "Torbay" and reduced to 74 guns 1750, sold 1784
** "Marlborough" 90 (1732) – Reduced to 68 guns 1752, foundered 1762
* Third Rates of 80 Guns
** "Lancaster" 80 (1722) – Rebuilt 1749
** "Princess Amelia" 80 (1723) – ex-"Humber", BU 1752
** "Cornwall" 80 (1726) - BU 1761
** "Norfolk" 80 (1728) – renamed "Princess Amelia" 1755, BU 1757
** "Somerset" 80 (1731) - BU 1746
** "Princess Caroline" 80 (1731) – ex-"Ranelagh, BU 1764
** "Russell" 80 (1735) – Sunk as a breakwater 1762
* Third Rates of 70 Guns
** "Edinburgh" 70 (1721) – ex-"Warspite", rebuilt 1744
** "Northumberland" 70 (1721) – Rebuilt 1743
** "Burford" 70 (1722) - BU 1752
** "Captain" 70 (1722) - Hulked 1739, BU 1762
** "Stirling Castle" 70 (1723) – Hulked 1739, BU 1771
** "Berwick" 70 (1723) - Hulked 1743, BU 1763
** "Lenox" 70 (1723) – Sunk as a breakwater 1756
** "Kent" 70 (1724) - BU 1744
** "Grafton" 70 (1725) - BU 1744
** "Ipswich" 70 (1730) - Hulked 1757, BU 1764
** "Buckingham" 70 (1731) - BU 1745
** "Prince of Orange" 70 (1734) - Reduced to 60 guns 1748, sheer hulk 1772, sold 1810
* Fourth Rates of 60 Guns
** "Canterbury" 60 (1722) – Rebuilt 1744
** "Plymouth" 60 (1722) - BU 1764
** "Sunderland" 60 (1724) – Rebuilt 1744
** "Windsor" 60 (1729) – Rebuilt 1745
** "Deptford" 60 (1732) - Reduced to 50 guns 1752, sold 1767
** "Swallow" 60 (1732) - BU 1742
** "Tilbury" 60 (1733) - Burnt 1742
** "Warwick" 60 (1733) - Captured 1756
** "Pembroke" 60 (1733) - Wrecked 1749
** "Dunkirk" 60 (1734) - Wrecked 1749
* Fourth Rates of 50 Guns
** "Falkland" 50 (1720) - Rebuilt 1744
** "Chatham" 50 (1721) – Sunk as a breakwater 1749
** "Colchester" 50 (1721) - BU 1742
** "Leopard" 50 (1721) - BU 1739
** "Argyll" 50 (1722) - Sunk as a breakwater 1748
** "Portland" 50 (1723) - BU 1743
** "Assistance" 50 (1725) - Sunk as a breakwater 1745
** "Romney" 50 (1726) – Sold 1757
** "Salisbury" 50 (1726) – Hulked 1744, sold 1749
** "Oxford" 50 (1727) - BU 1758
** "Falmouth" 50 (1729) - BU 1747
** "Lichfield" 50 (1730) - BU 1744
** "Greenwich" 50 (1730) – Wrecked 1744
** "Newcastle" 50 (1732) - BU 1746

Non-Establishment 60-gun ships

* "Centurion" 60 (1732) - Used by Anson in his world voyage, reduced to 50 guns 1744, BU 1769
* "Rippon" 60 (1735) – BU 1751

1733 Proposals

* First Rate of 100 Guns
** "Victory" 100 (1737) - Wrecked 1744
* Second Rates of 90 Guns
** "Duke" 90 (1739) – BU 1769
** "St George" 90 (1740) – BU 1774
* Third Rates of 80 Guns
** "Boyne" 80 (1739) – BU 1763
** "Cumberland" 80 (1739) – Reduced to 66 guns in 1747, foundered 1760
* Third Rates of 70 Guns
** "Elizabeth" 70 (1737) – BU 1766
** "Suffolk" 70 (1739) - BU1765
** "Essex" 70 (1740) - Wrecked 1759
** "Nassau" 70 (1740) – Sold 1770
** "Prince Frederick" 70 (1740) – Sold 1784
** "Bedford" 70 (1741) – Hulked 1767, sold 1787
** "Royal Oak" 70 (1741) - Hulked 1757, BU 1763
** "Stirling Castle" 70 (1742) - Lost 1762
** "Monmouth" 70 (1742) – BU 1767
** "Revenge" 70 (1742) – Sold 1787
** "Captain" 70 (1743) - Reduced to 64 guns 1760, storeship 1777, BU 1783
** "Berwick" 70 (1743) - BU 1760
* Fourth Rates of 60 Guns
** "Weymouth" 60 (1734) - Wrecked 1745
** HMS|Strafford|1735|2 60 (1735) – Scuttled as a breakwater 1756
** "Worcester" 60 (1735) - BU 1765
** "Augusta" 60 (1736) - BU 1765
** "Dragon" 60 (1736) - Scuttled as breakwater 1757
** "Jersey" 60 (1736) – Hospital ship1771, abandoned 1783
** "Superb" 60 (1736) - BU 1757
** "Lion" 60 (1738) – Sold 1765
** "Kingston" 60 (1740) – Sold 1762
** "Rupert" 60 (1740) - Rebuild of 1713 "Rupert" to a different design, BU 1769
** "Dreadnought" 60 (1742) - Sold 1784
** "Medway" 60 (1740) - BU 1749
** "Princess Mary" 60 (1742) - Sold1762
** "Exeter" 60 (1744) – BU 1763
** "Nottingham" 60 (1745) - Scuttled as breakwater 1773
* Fourth Rates of 50 Guns
** "Gloucester" 50 (1737) – Damaged in storm and burnt to avoid capture 1742
** "St Albans" 50 (1737) - Wrecked 1744
** "Severn" 50 (1739) - Captured by France 1746
** HMS|Guernsey|1740|2 50 (1740) – Hulk 17690, sold 1786
** "Hampshire" 50 (1741) - BU 1766
** "Leopard" 50 (1741) - BU 1761
** "Nonsuch" 50 (1741) - BU 1766
** "Sutherland" 50 (1741) - Sold 1770
** "Antelope" 50 (1742) - Sold 1783
** "Dartmouth" 50 (1741) - Blew up 1747
** "Woolwich" 50 (1741) - BU 1747
** "Preston" 50 (1742) – Hulk 1748, BU 1749

Other ships, provenance of data unknown

* "Eltham" (c. 1736) - BU 1763

List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1741-1755)

:"Number of main guns follows name (see Rating system of the Royal Navy)":Except where stated otherwise, these ships are listed in the order of p171-175 "The Ship of the Line Volume I", by Brian Lavery, pub Conways, 1983, ISBN 0-85177-252-8

1741 Proposals

* First Rates of 100 Guns:None built
* Second Rates of 90 Guns
** "Ramillies" 90 (1749) – Wrecked 1760
** "Prince" 90 (1750) – BU 1750
* Third Rates of 80 Guns
** "Newark" 80 (1747) – BU 1787
* Third Rates of 74 Guns
** "Culloden" 74 (1747) – Sold 1770
* Third Rates of 66 Guns
** "Devonshire" 66 (1745) - BU 1772 [The previous version of this list described this vessel as ' "Devonshire" 80 (1745) - Rearmed to 66 guns c. 1746'. The provenance of the claim that the ship was laid down as an 80-gun ship is not known.
It is not mentioned on p172 of Lavery, "The Ship of the Line Volume I"]
** "Lancaster" 66 (1749) - BU 1773
* Third Rates of 64 Guns
** "Northumberland" 66 (1743) – Captured 1774
** "Edinburgh" 66 (1744) – BU 1771
** "Hampton Court" 66 (1744) – BU 1774
** "Kent" 64 (1746) – Hulked 1760
** "Yarmouth" 64 (1748) – Reduced to 60 guns in 1781, BU 1811
* Fourth Rates of 58 Guns
** "Princess Louisa" 58 (1744) - BU 1766
** "Defiance" 58 (1744) - Sold 1766
** "Canterbury" 58 (1744) – Harbour service 1761, BU 1770
** "Sunderland" 58 (1745) - Foundered 1761
** "Tilbury" 58 (1745) - Foundered 1757
** "Eagle" 58 (1745) – Sold 1767
* Non-Establishment 58 Gun Ship
** "Windsor" 58 (1745) – Sold 1777
* Fourth Rates of 50 Guns
** "Chester" 50 (1743) - Sold 1767
** "Harwich" 50 (1743) – ex-"Tiger", [ The provenance of the claim that she was laid down as "Tiger" is not known] wrecked 1760
** "Winchester" 50 (1744) - Sold 1769
** "Maidstone" 50 (1744) – Wrecked 1747
** "Colchester" 50 (1744) - Wrecked 1744
** "Portland" 50 (1744) - Sold 1763
** "Falkland" 50 (1744) – Given to victualling depot 1768
** "Salisbury" 50 (1745) - Condemned 1761
** "Advice" 50] (1745) - BU 1756
** "Gloucester" 50 (1745) - BU 1764
** "Norwich" 50 (1745) - Sold 1768
** "Ruby" 50 (1745) - BU 1765
** "Colchester" 50 (1746) - BU 1773
** "Lichfield" 50 (1746) - Wrecked 1758
** "Panther" 50 (1746) - BU 1756
* "Bristol" class – Non-Establishment 50-Gun Ships
** "Bristol" (1746) - BU 1768
** "Rochester" (1749) - Sold 1770

1745 Establishment

* First Rates of 100 Guns
** "Royal George" 100 (1756) - Foundered 1782
** "Britannia" 100 (1762) – Renamed "Princess Royal" 1810, "St George" 1812, "St Barfleur" 1819, BU 1825
* Second Rates of 90 Guns:None built
* Third Rates of 80 Guns
** "Princess Amelia" 80 (1757) – Lent to customs 1788, sold 1818
* Third Rates of 70 Guns
** "Vanguard" 70 (1748) – Sold 1774
** "Somerset" 70 (1748) – Wrecked 1778
** "Orford" 70 (1749) – Harbour service 1777, sunk as a breakwater 1783
** "Grafton" 70 (1750) – Sold 1767
** "Swiftsure" 70 (1750) – Sold 1773
** "Northumberland" 70 (1750) – Renamed "Leviathan" storeship 1777, foundered 1779
** "Buckingham" 70 (1751) – Renamed "Grampus" storeship 1771, lost 1778
* Fourth Rates of 60 Guns
** "St Albans" 60 (1747) – Sold 1765
** "Anson" 60 (1747) - Sold 1773
** "Tiger" 60 (1747) – Hulked 1760, sold 1765
** "Weymouth" 60 (1752) – BU 1772
** "York" 60 (1753) – BU 1772
** "Medway" 60 (1755) – receiving ship 1787, BU 1811
* Fourth Rates of 50 Guns
** HMS|Greenwich|1747|2 50 (1747) - Captured by France 1757
** "Severn" 50 (1747) - Sold 1759
** "Tavistock" 50 (1747) – Hulked 1761, BU 1768
** "Assistance" 50 (1747) - Sold 1773
** "Newcastle" 50 (1750) - Foundered 1761
** "Falmouth" 50 (1752) - Abandoned aground 1765
** "Preston" 50 (1757) – Sheer hulk 1785, BU 1815

1745 Establishment, as amended in 1750

* Second Rates of 90 Guns
** "Namur" 90 (1755) – Reduced to 74 in 1805, harbour service 1807, BU 1833
** "Union" 90 (1756) – Hospital ship 1799, BU 1816
** "Neptune" 90 (1757) – Sheer hulk 1799, BU 1816
* Third Rate of 80 Guns
** "Cambridge" 80 (1755) – Harbour service 1793, BU 1808
* Third Rate of 70 Guns
** "Chichester" 70 (1753) – BU 1803
* Fourth Rates of 60 Guns
** "Dunkirk" 60 (1754) – Harbour service 1778, sold 1792
** "Achilles" 60 (1757) - Hulked 1778p76, Lyon, "The Sailing Navy List"]
** "America" 60 (1757) - BU 1771
** "Montagu" 60 (1757) – Sunk as a breakwater 1774

1745 Establishment, as amended in 1752

* Fourth Rates of 60 Guns
** "Pembroke" 60 (1757) – Hulked 1776, BU 1793
** "Rippon" 60 (1758) – Harbour service 1801, BU 1808
* Fourth Rate of 50 Guns
** "Chatham" 50 (1758) – Harbour service 1793, renamed "Tilbury" 1805/10, [Colledge, p. 67] BU 1814

1745 Establishment, as amended in 1754

* Third Rates of 70 Guns
** "Burford" 70 (1757) – Sold 1785
** "Dorsetshire" 70 (1757) – BU 1775
** "Boyne" 70 (1766) – BU 1783

1745 Establishment, as amended in 1756

* "Temple" class copied from 1745 Establishment "Vanguard"
** "Temple" 68 (1758) - Sank 1762
** "Conqueror" 68 (1758) - Wrecked 1760

Captured ships, War of 1739-1748

* "Princess" 70 (1740) - ex-Spanish "Princessa" captured 8 April 1740, hulk 1760, sold 1784
* "Vigilant" 58 (1745) – ex-French "Le Vigilant" captured 19 May 1745, sold 1759
* "Portland's Prize" 50 (1746) - ex-French "L'Auguste", captured 9 February 1746, sold 1749
* "Mars" 64 (1746) – ex-French "Le Mars"captured 11 October 1746, wrecked 1755
* "Intrepid" 64 (1747) - ex-French "Le Sérieux" captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre, [ Quoted as 14 May 1747 (i.e. [Gregorian calendar] ) p175 Lavery "The Ship of the Line Volume I"] BU 1765
* "Invincible" 74 (1747) - ex-French "L'Invincible" captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre, wrecked 1758
* "Isis" 50 (1747) - ex-French "Le Diamant" 56 captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre, sold 1766
* "Monarch" 74 (1747) - ex-French "Le Monarque", captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, sold 1760
* "Terrible" 74 (1747) - ex-French "Le Terrible", captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, BU 1763
* "Fougueux" 64 (1747) - ex-French "Le Fougueux" captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, BU 1759
* "Trident" 64 (1747) - ex-French "Trident" captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, sold 1763
* "Magnanime" 74 (1748) - ex-French "Le Magnanime" captured 31 January 1748, BU 1775

Other captured ships, provenance of data unknown

* "Rubis"? - ex-French "Rubis" 52, captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre
* "Jason" 50 - ex-French "Jason", captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre
* "Severn"? - ex-French "Severn" 50/56, captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre
* "Neptune"? - ex-French "Neptune" 70/74, captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre
* "Glory" 74 (1739) - ex-Spanish "Glorioso" captured 1747

Other ships, provenance of data unknown

* "?" 74 - Cancelled 1748
* "?" 74 - Cancelled 1748
* "Dartmouth" (-) - Cancelled 1748
* "Woolwich" (-) - Cancelled 1748

List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1755–1785)

By or soon after the appointment of Baron George Anson as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1751, the system of establishments that covered the design of British warships was abandoned, and with the appointment of Thomas Slade and William Bately as joint holders of the post of Surveyor of the Navy in 1755, new principles governed the composition of the battle fleet. No further three-decker 80-gun ships were built, and the 70-gun and 60-gun ships also ceased to be produced, being gradually replaced by new 74-gun and 64-gun ships. 50-gun ships were no longer considered to be fit to lie in the line, although 50-gun and 44-gun two-deckers continued to be built for cruising duties.:"Number of main guns follows name (see Rating system of the Royal Navy)"

First Rate of 100 Guns (three-deckers)

* "Victory" class (Slade)
** "Victory" 100 (1765) – Great repair 1801-03, Flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar 1805, 1805-08 modernised and re-rated as 98-gun Second Rate, hulked at Portsmouth 1824, dry-docked 1922, converted during the 1920s to her 1805 appearance, preserved in commission at Portsmouth as the only remaining ship of the line [ p62-63 Lyon "The Sailing Navy List", p175 Lavery "The Ship of the Line Volume I", [http://www.hms-victory.com HMS Victory.com] ]
* "Royal Sovereign" class (Williams)
** "Royal Sovereign" 100 (1786) - BU 1841
* Umpire class (Hunt)
** "Royal George" 100 (1788) - BU 1822
** "Queen Charlotte" 100 (1790) - Burned 1800
** "Queen Charlotte" 104 (1810) - Renamed "Excellent" 1860, BU 1892

econd Rates of 90 Guns [later 98 guns] (three-deckers)

* "Sandwich" class (Slade)
** "Sandwich" 90 (1759) – Floating battery 1780, harbour service 1790, BU 1810
** "Blenheim" 90 (1761) – Reduced to 74 in 1800, wrecked 1807
** "Ocean" 90 (1761) – Modified version of the "Sandwich" Class, sold 1793
* "London" class (Slade)
** "London" 90 (1766) – BU 1811
* "Barfleur" class (Slade, based on "Royal William")
** "Barfleur" 90 (1768) – BU 1819 [ p64 Lyon "The Sailing Navy List"
The date of BU quoted in Lavery is wrong. p175 Lavery "The Ship of the Line Volume I", [http://www.hms-victory.com HMS Victory.com] ]
** "Prince George" 90 (1772) - BU 1839
** "Princess Royal" 90 (1773) - BU 1807
** "Formidable" 90/98 (1777) - BU 1813
* Queen class (Bately)
** "Queen" 90 (1769) – Reduced to 74 in 1811, wrecked 1821
* "Duke" class (Williams)
** "Duke" 98 (1777) - BU 1843
** "St George" 98 (1785) - Wrecked 1811
** "Glory" 98 (1788) - BU 1825
** "Atlas" 98 (1782) - BU 1821
* Revived "London" class (Slade)
** "Prince" 98 (1788) - BU 1837
** "Impregnable" 98 (1786) - Wrecked 1799
** "Windsor Castle" 98 (1790) - BU 1839
* ""'Boyne" class (Hunt)
** "Boyne" 98 (1790) – Caught fire by accident and blew up at Spithead 1 May 1795
** "Prince of Wales" 98 (1794) – BU 1822.

Third Rates of 80 Guns (two-deckers)

* ""'Caesar" class (Hunt)
** "Caesar" 80 (1793) – 1814 hulked - used as Army depot Portsmouth, BU 1821

Third Rates of 74 Guns (two-deckers)

* "Dublin" class (Slade)
** "Dublin" 74 (1757) - First British "74". BU 1784
** "Norfolk" 74 (1757) - BU 1774
** "Lenox" 74 (1758) - Scuttled 1784
** "Mars" 74 (1759) - Sold 1784
** "Shrewsbury" 74 (1758) - Condemned 1783
** "Warspite" 74 (1758) - BU 1802
** "Resolution" 74 (1758) - Wrecked 1759
* "Fame" class (Bately)
** "Fame" 74 (1759) - Renamed "Guilford" c. 1799, sold 1814
* "Hero" class (Slade)
** "Hero" 74 (1759) - BU 1810
* "Hercules" class (Slade) – modified "Hero" class
** "Hercules" 74 (1759) - Sold 1784
** "Thunderer" 74 (1760) - Wrecked 1780
* "Bellona" class (Slade)
** "Bellona" 74 (1760) - BU 1814
** "Dragon" 74 (1760) - Sold 1784
** "Superb" 74 (1760) - Wrecked 1783
** "Kent" 74 (1762) - Sold 1784
** "Defence" 74 (1763) - Wrecked 1811
* "Valiant" class – modified "Dublin" class
** "Valiant" (1759) - BU 1826
** "Triumph" (1764) - BU 1850
* "Arrogant" class (Slade) – modified "Bellona" class
** "Arrogant" 74 (1761) - BU 1810
** "Cornwall" 74 (1761) - Scuttled/Burnt 1780
** "Edgar" 74 (1779) - BU 1835
** "Goliath" 74 (1781) - Razéed to 58 guns 1813, BU 1815
** "Zealous" 74 (1785) - BU 1816
** "Audacious" 74 (1785) - BU 1815
** "Elephant" 74 (1786) - Razéed to 58 guns 1818, BU 1830
** "Bellerophon" 74 (1786) - Sold 1836
** "Saturn" 74 (1786) - Razéed to 58 guns 1813, BU 1868
** "Vanguard" 74 (1787) - BU 1821
** "Excellent" 74 (1787) - Razéed to 58 guns 1820, BU 1835
** "Illustrious" 74 (1789) - Wrecked 1795
* "Canada" class (Bately)
** "Canada" 74 (1765) – Reclassed as 76 1780, hulked: receiving ship at Chatham 1810, powder magazine 1814, convict ship 1826, BU 1834.
** "Majestic" 74 (1785) - Razéed to 58 guns 1813, BU 1816
** "Orion" 74 (1787) – BU 1814
** "Captain" 74 (1787) – Hulked: receiving ship Plymouth 1809, burnt by accident and BU 1813
* "Albion" class (Slade)
** "Albion" 74 (1763) – Floating battery 1794, wrecked 1797
** "Grafton" 74 (1771) - BU 1816
** "Alcide" 74 (1779) - BU 1817
** "Fortitude" 74 (1780) - BU 1820
** "Irresistible" 74 (1782) - BU 1806
* "Ramillies" class (Slade)
** "Ramillies" 74 (1763) - Fire 1782
** "Monarch" 74 (1765) - BU 1813
** "Magnificent" 74 (1766) - Wrecked 1804
** "Marlborough" 74 (1767) - Wrecked 1800
* "Suffolk" class (Bately)
** "Suffolk" 74 (1765) - BU 1803
* Modified "Ramillies" class (Slade)
** "Terrible" 74 (1762) - Fire 1781
** "Russell" 74 (1764) - Sold 1811
** "Invincible" 74 (1765) - Wrecked 1801
** "Robust" 74 (1764) - BU 1817
** "Prince of Wales" 74 (1765) - Ex-"Hibernia, BU 1783
* Modified "Suffolk" class (Bately)
** "Ajax" 74 (1765) - Sold 1785
* "Royal Oak" class (Williams)
** "Royal Oak" 74 (1769) - BU 1815
** "Conqueror" 74 (1773) - BU 1794 [Winfield, Rif "British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792"]
** "Bedford" 74 (1775) - BU 1817
** "Hector" 74 (1774) - BU 1816
** "Vengeance" 74 (1774) - BU 1816
** "Sultan" 74 (1775) - BU 1816
* "Egmont" class (Slade)
** "Egmont" 74 (1768) - BU 1799
* "Elizabeth" class (Slade)
** "Elizabeth" 74 (1769) - BU 1797
** "Resolution" 74 (1770) - BU 1813
** "Cumberland" 74 (1774) - BU 1804
** "Berwick" 74 (1775) - Captured by France 1795, recaptured and wrecked, 1805
** "Bombay Castle" 74 (1782) - Wrecked 1796
** "Powerful" 74 (1783) - BU 1812
** "Defiance" 74 (1783) - BU 1817
** "Swiftsure" 74 (1787) - Captured by France 1801, same name, recaptured at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805, renamed "Irresistible" 1805, BU 1816
* "Culloden" class (Slade)
** "Culloden" 74 (1776) - Wrecked 1781
** "Thunderer" 74 (1783) - BU 1814
** "Venerable" 74 (1784) - Wrecked 1804
** "Victorious" 74 (1785) - BU 1803
** "Ramillies" 74 (1785) - BU 1850
** "Terrible" 74 (1785) - BU 1836
** "Hannibal" 74 (1786) - Captured by France 1801
** "Theseus" 74 (1786) - BU 1814
* "Alfred" class (Williams)
** "Alfred" 74 (1778) - BU 1814
** "Alexander" 74 (1778) - BU 1819
** "Warrior" 74 (1781) - BU 1857
** "Montagu" 74 (1779) - BU 1818
* "Ganges" class (Hunt), also known as "Culloden" class
** "Ganges" 74 (1782) - BU 1816
** "Culloden" 74 (1783) - BU 1813
** "Tremendous" 74 (1784) - Sold 1897
** "Invincible" 74 (1808) - BU 1861
** " Minden " 74 (1810) - Sold 1861
** "Minotaur" 74 (1816) - Renamed "Hermes"
* "Carnatic" class built to the lines of the French "Courageux" (capture of 1761)
** "Leviathan" 74 (1790) – Hulked 1816
** "Carnatic" 74 (1783) – Hulked 1805
** "Colossus" 74 (1787) – Wrecked 1798
** "Minotaur" 74 (1793) – Wrecked 1810

Third Rates of 64 Guns (two-deckers)

* "Asia" class (Slade)
** "Asia" 64 (1764) - BU 1804
* "Essex" class (Slade) – modified "Asia" class
** "Essex" 64 (1760) - Sold 1779/99
** "Africa" 64 (1761) - Sold 1774
* "St Albans" class (Slade)
** "St Albans" 64 (1764) - BU 1814
** "Augusta" 64 (1763) - Burnt 1777
** "Director" 64 (1784) - BU 1801
* "Exeter" class (Bately)
** "Exeter" 64 (1763) - Burnt 1784
** "Europa" 64 (1765) - BU 1814
** "Trident" 64 (1768) - Sold 1816
** "Prudent" 64 (1768) - Sold 1814
* "Ardent" class (Slade)
** "Ardent" 64 (1764) - Captured 1779, recaptured 1782, sold 1784
** "Raisonnable" 64 (1768) - BU 1815
** "Agamemnon" 64 (1781) - Wrecked 1809
** "Belliqueux" 64 (1781) - BU 1816
** "Stately" 64 (1784)
** "Nassau" 64
** "Indefatigable" 64/44 (1784) - BU 1816
* "Worcester" class (Slade)
** "Worcester" 64 (1769) – Hulked at Deptford 1788, BU 1816
** "Lion" 64 (1777) - Sold for BU 1837
** "Stirling Castle" 64 (1775) – Wrecked 1780
* "Intrepid" class (Williams)
** "Intrepid" 64 (1770) - Sold to BU 1828.
** "Monmouth" 64 (1772) - BU 1818.
** "Defiance" 64 (1772) - Sank 1780.
** "Nonsuch" 64 (1774) - BU 1802.
** "Ruby" 64 (1776) - BU 1821.
** "Vigilant" 64 (1774) - BU 1816.
** "Eagle" 64 (1774) - BU 1812.
** "America" 64 (1777) - BU 1807.
** "Anson" 64 (1781) - Razéed to 44-gun frigate 1794, wrecked 1807
** "Polyphemus" 64 (1782) - BU 1827.
** "Magnanime" 64 (1780) - BU 1813.
** "Sampson" 64 (1781) - Sold to BU 1832.
** "Repulse" 64 (1780) - Wrecked 1800.
** "Diadem" 64 (1782) - BU 1832.
** "Standard" 64 (1782) - BU 1816.
* "Inflexible" class (Williams)
** "Inflexible" 64 (1780) - Storeship 1793-95, troopship 1800-07, hulked as floating magazine Halifax Nova Scotia 1809, BU 1820
** "Africa" 64 (1781) – Hospital ship 1895-1805, BU 1814
** "Dictator" 64 (1783) – Troopship 1798-1803, floating battery 1803-05, troopship 1813, BU 1817
** "Sceptre" 64 (1781) – Wrecked at Table Bay 5 Dec 1799
* "Crown" class (Hunt)
** "Crown" 64 (1782) – Hulked 1798
** "Ardent" 64 (1782) – Blew up 1794
** "Scipio " 64 (1782) – BU 1798
** "Veteran" 64 (1787) – Hulked 1809

Fourth Rates of 60 Guns (two-deckers)

* "Edgar" class (Slade)
** "Edgar" 60/64 (1758) - Scuttled 1774
** "Panther" 60 (1758) - BU 1813
** "Firm" 60 (1759) - Sold 1791

Fourth Rates of 50 Guns (two-deckers)

* "Warwick" class (Bately)
** "Warwick" 50 (1767) - Sold 1802
* "Romney" class (Slade)
** "Romney" 50 (1762) - Wrecked 1804
* "Salisbury" class (Slade) – modified "Romney" class
** "Salisbury" 50 (1769) - Wrecked 1796
** "Centurion" 50 (1774) - Sank 1824, refloated, BU 1825
* "Portland" class (Williams)
** "Portland" 50 (1770) - Sold 1817
** "Bristol" 50 (1775) - BU 1810
** "Renown" 50 (1774) - BU 1794
** "Isis" 50 (1774) - BU 1810
** "Leopard" 50 (1790) - Wrecked 1814
** "Hannibal" 50 (1779) - Captured by France 1782
** "Jupiter" 50 (1778) - Wrecked 1808
** "Leander" 50 (1780) - Captured by France 1798, captured by Russia 1799, returned to Britain, converted to hospital ship 1806, renamed "Hygeia" 1813, sold 1817
** "Adamant" 50 (1780) - BU 1814
** "Assistance" 50 (1781) - Wrecked 1802
** "Europa" 50 (1783) - Sold 1814
* "Experiment" class (Williams)
** "Experiment" 50 (1774) - Captured by France 1779
** "Medusa" 50 (1785) - Wrecked 1798
* "Grampus" class (Hunt)
** "Grampus" 50 (1782) - BU 1794
** "Cato" 50 (1782) - Disappeared 1782
* "Trusty" class (Hunt)
** "Trusty" 50 (1782) - BU 1815

Captured Vessels

:Provenance unknown
* "Arc en Ciel" (c. 1745, ex-French, captured 1756) - Sold 1759
* "Formidable" 80 (ex-French, captured 1759)
* "Gibraltar" 80 (1749, ex-Spanish "Fenix", captured 1780) - BU 1836
* "Princess Caroline" (ex-Dutch, captured 1780) - Scuttled 1799
* "Rotterdam" (ex-Dutch, captured 1781) - Sold 1806
* "Caesar" 74 (ex-French "César", captured 1782) - Blew up 1782
* "Glory/Glorious" 74 (1756, ex-French "Glorieux", captured 1782)
* "Argonaut" 64 (ex-French "Jason", captured 1782)

List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1785–1830)

First Rates of 120 Guns (three-deckers)

* "Caledonia" class (Rule)
** "Caledonia" 120 (1808) - Renamed "Dreadnought", BU 1875
** "Britannia" 120 (1820) - BU 1869
** "Prince Regent" 120 (1823) - Converted to screw, BU 1873
** "Royal George" 120 1827) - Converted to screw, BU 1875
* "Nelson" class ('Surveyors' = Rule & Peake)
** "Nelson" 120 (1814) - 1859-60 cut down to 91 gun 2-decker and converted to screw, 1867 given to New South Wales Government and fitted as school ship, 1898 sold, 1928 BU. No sea service as either sail or steam line-of-battle ship.
** "St Vincent" 120 (1815) - Sold 1906
** "Howe" 120 (1815) - BU 1854
* "Saint George" class – broadened version of "Caledonia"
** "St George" 120 (1840) - Sold 1883
** "Royal William" 120 (1833) - Laid down as 120-gunner. Burnt 1899
** "Neptune" 120 (1832) - Cut down to 2-decker and converted to 2-decker steam line-of-battle ship 1859, BU 1875,
** "Waterloo" 120 ((1833) - Cut down to an 89 gun 2-decker and converted to steam in 1859, and was renamed "Conqueror" in 1862. In 1877 she was renamed "Warspite" and served as a training ship at Greenhithe/Woolwich. She was burnt in 1918.
** "Trafalgar" 120 (1841) - Laid down as 106-gunner. Sold 1906

First Rates of 110 Guns (three-deckers)

* ""'Ville de Paris" class (Henslow)
** "Ville de Paris" 110 (1795) – Hulked 1825, BU 1845.
* ""'Hibernia" class (Henslow) – lengthened version of "Ville de Paris"
** "Hibernia" 110 (1804) - Sold 1902
* ""'Ocean" class (Henslow) – lengthened version of "Neptune/Dreadnought"
** "Ocean" 110 (1805) – Cut down to 80-gun 2-decker 1821, hulked 1831coal depot 1852, BU 1875

First Rates of 100/104 Guns (three-deckers) – later rated as 110 guns

* ""'Impregnable" class (Rule)
** "Impregnable" 104 (1810) – Harbour flagship Plymouth 1839, hulked as training ship 1862, renamed "Kent" 1883, renamed "Caledonia" 1891, sold 1906
* "Trafalgar" class (Rule) – modified "Impregnable"
** "Trafalgar" 100 (1820) – Renamed "Camperdown" 1825, hulked as coal deport Portsmouth 1860, Renamed "Pitt" 1882, sold 1906
* "Princess Charlotte" class (Rule) – modified "Impregnable"
** "Princess Charlotte" 104 (1825) – Hulked as floating barracks Hong Kong 1857, sold 1875
** "Royal Adelaide" 104 (1828) – ex-"London", 1869 hulked as flag and receiving ship Plymouth, to Chatham 1891, sold 1905

econd Rates of 98 Guns (three-deckers)

* ""'Neptune" class (Henslow)
** "Dreadnought" 98 (1801) - BU 1857.
** "Neptune" 98 (1797) - BU 1818.
** "Temeraire" 98 (1798) - BU 1838.
* "Boyne" class – built to the lines of Slade's "Victory"
** "Boyne" 98 (1810) - Renamed "Excellent" 1834, BU 1861
** "Union" 98 (1811) - BU 1833

econd Rates of 90/92 Guns (two-deckers)

* "Rodney" class (Seppings)
** "Rodney" 92 (1833) - Converted to screw 1860, BU 1882
** "Nile" 92 (1830) - Converted to screw 1854, burnt 1956
** "London" 92 (1840) - Converted to screw 1858, sold 1884

econd Rates of 84 Guns (two-deckers)

* "Formidable" class (Seppings) – lines of the "Canopus" (ex-French "Franklin", captured 1798), but structurally different
** "Formidable" 84 (1825) - Sold 1906
* modified "Formidable" class built in teak in India
** "Ganges" 84 (1821) - Sold 1929
** "Asia" 84 (1824) - Flagship at the Battle of Navarino, 1827, sold 1908
** "Bombay" 84 (1828) - Converted to screw 1861, burnt 1864
* further modified "Formidable" class built in India
** "Calcutta" 84 (1831) - Sold 1908
* modified "Formidable" class
** "Monarch" 84 (1832) - BU 1862-66
** "Vengeance" 84 (1824) - Sold 1897
** "Thunderer" 84 (1831) - Sold 1901
** "Powerful" 84 (1826) - BU 1860-64
** "Clarence" 84 (1827) – ex-"Goliath", burnt 1884

Third Rates of 80 Guns (two-deckers)

* "Foudroyant" class (Henslow)
** "Foudroyant" 80 (1798) – hulked as gunnery training ship Plymouth 1861, sold to Wheatley Cobb as boys training ship, 1897 wrecked on Blackpool Sands on fund raising and propaganda tour 1897
* "Rochfort" class (Barrallier)
** "Rochfort" 80 (1814) – BU 1826 p115, Lyons, "The Sailing Navy List"]
** "Sandwich" 80 (-) – Ordered 1809, keel laid Dec 1809, cancelled 1811 [p111, Lyons, "The Sailing Navy List"]
* "Waterloo" class (Peake)
** "Waterloo" 80 (1818) – Renamed "Bellerophon" 1824, became receiving ship Plymouth, sold 1892
* "Cambridge" class – lines of Danish "Christian VII" taken 1807
** "Cambridge" 80 (1815) – Later classed as 82, hulked as gunnery training ship Plymouth 1856, 1869 BU
* "Indus" class – enlarged lines of Danish "Christian VII" taken 1807
** "Indus" 80 (1839) – Hulked 1860 as harbour flagship Plymouth, sold for BU 1898
* "Hindostan" class – enlarged lines of "Repulse"
** "Hindostan" 80 (1841) – Hulked 1884 as cadet training ship at Dartmouth, training ship for boy artificers at Portsmouth renamed "Fishgard III" 1905, sold for BU 1921

Third Rates of 74 Guns (two-deckers)

* "Brunswick" class ('Admiralty')
** "Brunswick" 74 (1790) – Hulked as prison ship Chatham 1812, powder magazine 1814, lazaretto Sheerness 1825, BU 1826 p109, Lyons, "The Sailing Navy List"]
* "Mars" class (Henslow)
** "Mars" 74 (1794) – Hulked as receiving ship Portsmouth 1814, BU 1819
** "Centaur" 74 (1797) – BU 1819
* "Courageux" class (Henslow)
** "Courageux" 74 (1800) – Hulked as lazaretto Chatham 1814, BU 1832
* "Plantagenet" class (Rule)
** "Plantagenet" 74 (1801) – BU 1817
* "Bulwark" class (Rule)
** "Bulwark" 74 (1807) – ex-"Scipio", BU 1826
** "Valiant" – ordered 1826, but not started p110, Lyons, "The Sailing Navy List"]
* "Ajax" class [ p110, Lyons, "The Sailing Navy List" calls this the "Kent" class] – modified version of 1757 "Valiant" class
** "Ajax" 74 (1798) – Sheer hulk at Plymouth 1857, BU 1880
** "Kent" 74 (1798) – Accidentally burnt off Tenedos 11 Feb 1807
* "Conqueror" class (Henslow) – modified "Mars" class
** "Conqueror" 74 (1801) – BU 1822
* "Dragon" class (Rule)
** "Dragon" 74 (1798) – Lazaretto at Pembroke 1824, receiving ship and marine barracks 1832, renamed "Fame" 1842, BU 1850
* "Northumberland" class – lines of French "Impetueux" taken 1794
** "Northumberland" 74 (1798) - Lazaretto at Sheerness 1827, BU 1850
** "Renown" 74 (1798) – Hospital ship Plymouth 1814, later to Deptford(?), BU 1835(?)
* "Spencer" class (Barralier)
** "Spencer" 74 (1800) – BU 1822
* "Achille" class –lines of French "Pompée" taken 1793
** "Achille" 74 (1798) - Sold for BU 1865
** "Superb" 74 (1798) - BU 1826
* "Revenge" class – lines of French "Impetueux" taken 1794
** "Revenge" 74 (1806) - BU 1840
* "Milford" class – lines of French "Impetueux" taken 1794
** "Milford" 74 (1806) – Lazaretto at Pembroke 1825, BU 1846 [p110-111, Lyons, "The Sailing Navy List"]
** "Princess Amelia" 74 (-) – Keel laid 1 Jan 1799, cancelled March 1800
* "Colossus" class (Henslow)
** "Colossus" 74 (1803) – BU 1826 p112, Lyons, "The Sailing Navy List"]
** "Warspite" 74 (1807) – Cut down to 50 gun frigate 1840, hulked 1862 and lent to Marine Socienty as training ship, burnt 1876
* "Fame/Hero" class (Henslow)
** "Fame" 74 (1805) - BU 1817
** "Albion" 74 (1802) – Lazaretto Portsmouth 1831, BU 1836
** "Hero" 74 (1803) – Wrecked on the Haak Islands 25 Dec 1811
** "Illustrious" 74 (1803) – Hulked as ordinary guard ship Plymouth 1848, hospital ship 1853, reverted to ordinary guard ship 1859, BU 1868
** "Marlborough" 74 (1807) – BU 1835
** "York" 74 (1807) – Hulked as convict ship Portsmouth 1819, BU 1835
** "Hannibal" 74 (1810) – Lazaretto Plymouth 1825, later to Pembroke(?), BU 1834
** "Sultan" 74 (1807) – Hulked as receiving ship Portsmouth 1861, target ship 1862, BU 1864
** "Royal Oak" 74 (1809) – Hulked as receiving ship Bermuda 1825, BU 1850
* Modified "Carnatic" class (derived from prize "Courageux", taken from the French 1761)
** "Aboukir " 74 (1807) – Hulked 1824, sold 1838.
** "Bombay" 74 (1808) – Renamed "Blake" 1819, hulked 1823, BU 1855.
* "Swiftsure" class (Henslow)
** "Swiftsure" 74 (1804) – Hulked as receiving ship Portsmouth 1819, BU 1845 p113, Lyons, "The Sailing Navy List"]
** "Victorious" 74 (1804) – Hulked as receiving ship Portsmouth 1826, BU 1861
* "Repulse" class (Rule) – "Talavera" structurally different
** "Repulse" 74 (1803) – BU 1820
** "Eagle" 74 (1804) – Cut down as 50-gun frigate 1831, hulked at Falmouth for the Coastguard 1857, training ship in Southampton Water 1860, to Liverpool 1862, Mersey Division RNVR 1910, renamed "Eaglet" 1918, burnt 1826, wreck sold for BU 1827
** "Sceptre" 74 (1802) – BU 1821
** "Magnificent" 74 (1806) – Hulked as receiving ship Jamaica 1823, sold 1843
** "Valiant" 74 (1807) – BU 1823
** "Elizabeth" 74 (1807) – BU 1820
** "Cumberland" 74 (1807) – Hulked as convict ship and coal deport Chatham, renamed "Fortitude" 1833, to Sheerness as coal deport by 1856, sold 1870
** "Venerable" 74 (1808) – Hulked as church ship Portsmouth, BU 1838
** "Talavera" 74 (1818) – Timbered according to Seppings' principle using smaller timbers than usual – Accidentally burnt at Plymouth Oct 1840, then BU
** "Belleisle" 74 (1819) – Troopship 1841, hulked as hospital ship Sheerness 1854, lent to the seaman's hospital at Greenwich 1866-68, BU 1872
** "Malabar" 74 (1818) – Hulked as coal deport Portsmouth 1848, renamed "Myrtle" 1883, sold 1905
* "Blake" class – lengthened "Leviathan" class
** "Blake" 74 (1808) – Hulked as temporary prison ship Portsmouth 1814, sold 1816
** "Santo Domingo" 74 (1809) – Sold 1816
* "Armada" class 74-gun Third Rates. The most numerous class of British capital ships ever built, with forty vessels being completed to this design.
** "Armada" 74 (1810)- sold 1863 p113-115, Lyons, "The Sailing Navy List"]
** "Cressy" 74 (1810) – 1827 planned to be converted to 50-gun frigate but instead BU 1832
** "Vigo" 74 (1810) – Hulked at receiving ship Plymouth, BU 1865
** "Vengeur" 74 (1810) – Hulked as receiving ship 1824, BU 1843 p188, Lavery, "The Ship of the Line, Volume I"]
** "Ajax" (1809) - Converted to 60-gun screw blockship, 1847, BU 1864
** "Conquestador" 74 (1810) – Cut down to 50 gun frigate 1831, hulked War Office powder depot at Purfleet 1856, powder depot Plymouth 1863, sold 1897
** "Poictiers" 74 (1809) – BU 1857
** "Berwick" 74 (1809) – BU 1821
** "Egmont" 74 (1810) – Hulked as storeship Rio de Janeiro 1863, sold 1875
** "Clarence" 74 (1812) - Renamed "Centurion" 1826 and planned to be converted to 50-gun frigate but instead BU 1828
** "Edinburgh" 74 (1811) - Converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1852, sold 1866
** "America" 74 (1810) – Cut down to 50-gun frigate 1835, hulked 1864, BU 1867
** "Scarborough" 74 (1812) – Sold 1836
** "Asia" (1811) – Renamed "Alfred", cut down to 50-gun frigate 1828, hulked as gunnery trials ship Portsmouth 1858, BU 1865
** "Mulgrave" 74 (1812) – Hulked at lazaretto Pembroke 1836, powder ship 1844, BU 1854
** "Anson" 74 (1812) – Hulked as temporary lazaretto Portsmouth 1831, by 1843 to Chatham and then to Tasmania as a convict ship, BU 1851
** "Gloucester" 74 (1812) - Cut down to 50-gun frigate 1835, hulked as receiving ship Chatham 1861, sold 1884
** "Rodney" 74 (1809) – Renamed "Greenwich" 1827 and cut down to 50-gun frigate, but conversion probably never completed, sold 1836
** "Hogue" 74 (1811) - Converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1848, BU 1865
** "Dublin" 74 (1812) - Cut down to 50-gun frigate 1836, laid up 1845, sold 1885
** "Barham" 74 (1811) - Cut down to 50-gun frigate 1836, BU 1840
** "Benbow" 74 (1813) – Hulked as marine barracks Sheerness 1848, prison ship for Russians 1854, coal deport 1859, sold for BY 1894
** "Stirling Castle" 74 (1811) – Hulked as convict ship Plymouth 1839, to Portsmouth 1844, BU 1861
** "Vindictive" 74 (1813) - Cut down to 50-gun frigate 1833, hulked as depot ship Fernando Po 1862, sold 1871
** "Blenheim" (1813) - Converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1847, hulked at Portsmouth, BU 1865
** "Duncan" 74 (1811) – Hulked as lazaretto Portsmouth 1826, to Sheerness 1831, BU 1863
** "Rippon" 74 (1812) – BU 1821
** "Medway" 74 (1812) – Hulked as convict ship Bermuda 1847, sold 1865
** "Cornwall" 74 (1812) - Cut down to 50-gun frigate 1830, hulked and lent to London School Ship Society as reformatory 1859, to the Tyne as "Wellesley" hulk 1868, BU 1875
** "Pembroke" (1812) - Converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1855, hulked as base ship Chatham 1873, renamed "Forte" 1890 as receiving hulk, then "Pembroke" again 1891, sold 1905 Sold 1904 according to p139, Lambert, "Battleships in Transition"]
** "Indus" (1812) - Renamed "Bellona" 1818, hulked as receiving ship Plymouth 1842, BU 1868
** "Redoubtable" 74 (1815) – BU 1841
** "Devonshire" 74 (1812) – Hulked and lent to Greenwich Seamen's Hospital as temporary hospital ship 1849, to Sheerness as prison ship for Russians 1854, school ship in Queensborough Swale 1860, BU 1869
** "Defence" 74 (1815) – Hulked as convict ship Woolwich 1848, burnt and BU 1857
** "Hercules" 74 (1815) – troopship 1838, emigrant ship 1852, hulked as Army depot ship Hong Kong after 1853, sold 1865
** "Agincourt" (1817) – Hulked as training ship Plymouth after 1848, renamed "Vigo" 1865, cholera hospital ship 1866, receiving ship Plymouth 1870, sold 1884, BU 1885
** "Pitt" 74 (1816) – Hulked as coal deport and receiving ship Plymouth 1853, to Portland 1860, later back to Portsmouth, BU 1877
** "Wellington" (1816) – ex-"Hero", hulked as receiving and depot ship Sheerness 1848, to Coastguard Sheerness 1857, to Liverpool Juvenile Reformatory Association Ltd as training ship and renamed "Akbar", sold for BU 1908
** "Russell" 74 (1822) - Converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854-55, Coastguard ship Sheerness 1858, BU 1865
** "Akbar" 74 (-) – Keel laid 4 Apr 1807, cancelled 12 Oct 1809. Uncertain whether she was of this class
* "Cornwallis" class – teak-built versions of "Armada" class
** "Cornwallis" 74 (1813) - converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854-55, hulked as a jetty at Sheerness 1865, renamed "Wildfire" 1916 as base ship, BU 1957
** "Wellesley" 74 (1815) - Hulked as harbour flagship and receiving ship at Chatham 1862,to Purfleet for the London School Ship Society as a reformatory and renamed "Cornwall" 1868, sunk by the Luftwaffe 1940 (the only ship-of-the-line ever to be sunk in an air attack)
** "Carnatic" 74 (1823) - Hulked as coal deport Portsmouth 1860, floating magazine for the War Office 1886, reurned to the Admiralty 1891, Sold 1914 [p191, Lavery, "The Ship of the Line, Volume I"]
* "Black Prince" class Note that, while "Wellesley" belonged officially to this class, plans meant for her construction were lost in 1812 when aboard the "Java" which was captured by the Americans; so in practice she was built to the lines of the "Cornwallis" (see above).
** "Black Prince" 74 (1816) - BU 1855
** "Melville" 74 (1817) - Hulked as hospital ship Hong Kong 1857, sold 1873
** "Hawke" 74 (1820) - Converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854-55, BU 1865
* "Chatham" class – design used captured frames of Franco-Dutch "Royal Hollondais"
** "Chatham" 74 (1812) – Sold 1817
* "Hastings" class - purchased from East India Company in 1819
** "Hastings" 74 (1819) - Converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1855, Coastguard 1857, coal hulk 1870, sold 1885 p292, Lyons, "The Sailing Navy List"]
* Class uncertain
** "Augusta"(?) 74 (-) – Keel laid 1806(?) cancelled 1810(?)

Third Rates of 72 Guns (two-deckers)

* "Imaun" class - gift to the RN from the Imam of Muscat 1836
** "Imaun" 70 (1826) - Hulked at Jamaica as receiving ship 1842, BU 1862/66

Fourth Rates of 50 Guns (two-deckers)

* "Antelope" class (Henslow)
** "Antelope" 50 (1802) - BU 1845
* "Diomede" class (Henslow) - probably a variant of "Antelope"
** "Diomede" 50 (1798) - BU 1815
** "Grampus" 50 (1802) - Sold 1832
* "Jupiter" class
** "Jupiter" 50 (1813) - BU 1870
* modified "Jupiter" class
** "Salisbury" 50 (1814) - Sold 1837
** "Romney" 50 (1815) - Sold 1845
** "Isis" 50 (1819) - Sold 1867

Converted Indiamen

* "Calcutta" (1795) - Ex-"Warley". Captured by France 1805
* "Grampus" (1795) - Ex-"Ceres".
* "Hindostan" (1795) - Ex-"Born".
* "Abergavenny" (1795) - Ex-"Earl of Abergavenny". Sold 1807
* "Malabar" (1795) - Ex-"Royal Charlotte". Sank 1796
* "Glatton" (1795) - Scuttled 1830
* "Coromandel" (1795) - Ex-"Winterton". Sold 1813
* "Madras" (1795) - Ex-"Lascelles". Sold 1807
* "Weymouth" (1795) - Ex-"Earl Mansfield". Wrecked 1800
* "Malabar" (1798) - Ex-"Cuvera". Renamed "Coromandel" 1815, BU 1853
* "Hindostan" (1798) - Ex-"Admiral Rainier". Renamed "Dolphin" 1819, renamed "Justitia" 1831, sold 1855

Captures of the Revolutionary War

* "Commerce de Marseilles" 120 (1788) – ex-French, captured 29 Aug 1793, prison ship by 1800, sold 1802 p186, Lavery, "The Ship of the Line, Volume I"]
* "Pompée" 74 (1791) – ex-French, captured 29 Aug 1793, BU 1817
* "Juste" 80 (1784) – ex-French, captured 1 June 1794, BU 1811
* "Ca Ira" 80 (1784) – ex-French, captured 1 June 1794, Burnt by accident 11 April 1896.
* "Sans Pareil" 80 (1793) – ex-French, captured 1 Jun 1794, sheer hulk 1810, BU 1842
* "Impétueux" 74 (1788) – ex-French "America", captured 1 Jun 1794, BU 1813
* "Le Tigre' 80 (1793) – ex-French, captured 23 Jun 1795, BU 1817
* "Belleisle" 74 (1788) – ex-French "Formidable", captured 23 Jun 1795, fought at Trafalgar, BU 1814
* "Overyssel" 64 – ex-Dutch, captured 22 Oct 1795, hulk 1810, sold 1882
* "Zealand" 64 – ex-Dutch, captured 19 Jan 1796, harbour service 1803, sold 1830
* "Dordrecht" 64 – ex-Dutch, captured 17 Aug 1796, harbour service 1804, sold 1823
* "Prince Frederick" 64 – ex-Dutch "Revolutie", captured 17 Aug 1796, hospital ship by 1804, sold 1817
* "San Nicolas" 80 (1769) – ex-Spanish, captured 14 Feb 1797, prison ship 1798, sold 1814.
* "San Josef" 110 (1783) – ex-Spanish, captured 14 Feb 1797, training ship by 1837, BU 1849
* "Vryheid" 70 - ex-Dutch "Vryheid", captured 11 Oct 1797, prison ship 1798, powder hulk 1802, sold 1811.
* "Camperdown" 70 - ex-Dutch "Jupiter", captured 11 Oct 1797, prison ship 1798, powder hulk 1802, sold 1817.
* "Admiral De Vries" 64 – ex-Dutch, captured 11 Oct 1797, harbour service 1800, sold 1806
* "Haarlem" 64 – ex-Dutch, captured 11 Oct 1797, harbour service 1811, sold 1816
* "Wassenar" 64 – ex-Dutch, captured 11 Oct 1797, hulk 1804, sold 1818
* "Delft" 64 – ex-Dutch "Hercules", captured 17 Aug 1796, hospital ship by 1804, sold 1817
* "Princess of Orange" 70 – ex-Dutch, captured 30 Aug 1799, harbour service 1806, sold 1822.
* "L'Hercule" 84 (1797) - ex-French, captured 11 Oct 1797, fitted as troopship 1799, powder hulk 1802, sunk as breakwater 1822.
* "Canopus" 80 (1797) - ex-French "Franklin", captured 1 Aug 1798, harbour service 1863, sold 1887
* "Tonnant" 80 (1789) – ex-French captured 1 Aug 1798, BU 1821
* "Spartiate" 80 (1794) - ex-French "Spartiate", sheer hulk 1842, BU 1857
* "Donegal" 76 (1794) - ex-French "Hoche" captured 12 Oct 1798, BU 1845
* "Guerrier" (1757) - ex-French "Guerrière", captured 2 Aug 1798, BU 1810.
* "Leyden" 64 – ex-Dutch, captured 30 Aug 1799, floating battery 1805, sold 1815
* "Texel" 64 – ex-Dutch "Cerberus", captured 30 Aug 1799, sold 1818
* "Genereux" (1785) 74 (1785) – ex-French, captured 18 Feb 1800, prison ship 1805, BU 1816
* "Malta" (1795) 84 (1795) – ex-French "Guillaume Tell", captured 30 Mar 1800, harbour service 1831, BU 1840
* "Athenienne" (1800) 64 (1800) – ex-French "Athenien" ex-Maltese, captured 30 Aug 1798, wrecked 1806
* "San Antonio"(1800) 74 (1800) – ex-French "Saint Antoine" originally Spanish, ceded to France 1800, captured 12 July 1801, prison ship 1804, sold 1828

Other Captured Ships - provenance of data unknown

* "Brakel" (c. 1784, ex-Dutch, captured 1796) - Sold 1814
* "Tromp" (c. 1779, ex-Dutch, captured 1796) - Sold 1815
* "Alkmaar" (c. 1783, ex-Dutch, captured 1797) - Sold 1815
* "Broederschap" (c. 1769, ex-Dutch, captured 1799) - Renamed "Broaderscarp", BU 1805
* "Batavier" (c. 1779, ex-Dutch, captured 1799) - BU 1823
* "Beschermer" (c. 1784, ex-Dutch, captured 1799) - Sold 1838Note the six Dutch ships above were 54-gun ships, and thus classed by the British Navy as Fourth Rate two-deckers, and not as ships of the line.

Captures of the Napoleonic War

* French 80-gun ships of "Le Tonnant" class:Fact|date=September 2007
** "Brave"(?) (ex-French "Le Formidable", captured 1805) - BU 1816 Fact|date=September 2007
** "Alexandre" (ex-French "L'Alexandre", captured 1806) - Sold 1822 Fact|date=September 2007
* French 74-gun ships of "Le Téméraire" class: Fact|date=September 2007
** "Duquesne" 74 (1788) - ex-French "Le Duquesne", captured 25 Jul 1803, stranded 1804, BU 1805 p189, Lavery, "The Ship of the Line, Volume I"]
** "Implacable" 74 (1800) - ex-French "Le Duguay-Trouin", captured 4 Nov 1805, training ship 1805, scuttled 1949
** "Mont Blanc" 74 (1791) - ex-French "Le Mont Blanc", captured 4 Nov 1805, hulk 1811, sold 1819
** "Scipion" 74 (1801) - ex-French "Le Scipion", captured 4 Nov 1805, BU 1819
** "Brave" 74 (1795) - ex-French "Le Brave", captured 6 Feb 1806), foundered 1806
** "Maida" 74 (1795) - ex-French "Le Jupiter", captured 6 Feb 1806), sold 1814
** "Marengo" (ex-French "Le Marengo", captured 1806) - BU 1816 Fact|date=September 2007
** "Abercrombie" 74 (1807) - ex-French "Le d'Hautpoult", captured 7 Sep 1809, sold 1817 p190, Lavery, "The Ship of the Line, Volume I"]
** "Genoa" (ex-French "Le Brillant", captured 1814 on stocks) - BU 1838 Fact|date=September 2007
* French 74-gun ship of "Le Pluton" class: Fact|date=September 2007
** "Rivoli" 74 (1810) - ex-French "Le Rivoli", captured 22 Feb 1812, BU 1819
* "Christian VIII" 80 (?) - ex-Danish, captured 7 Sep 1807, harbour service 1809, BU 1838
* "Dannemark" 74 (?) - ex-Danish, captured 7 Sep 1807, sold 1815
* "Norge" 74 (?) - ex-Danish, captured 7 Sep 1807, sold 1816
* "Princess Carolina" 74 (?) - ex-Danish, captured 7 Sep 1807, sold 1815

List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1830–1847)

Captain Sir William Symonds served as Surveyor of the Navy from 1832 to 1847. Captain Symonds was a naval officer and yacht designer, "who had risen to prominence by his success in competitive sailing trials between small warships. His selection implied a criticism of the dockyard-trained architects of the preceding 200 years".p15, Lambert "Battleships in Transition"] Symonds attempted a revolution in warship design. His ships were designed to be faster under sail, and have more room for the gunners to work the guns (improving ergonomics). To achieve this, his ships were larger, and used a different hull form to provide stability without needing large amounts of ballast. Unfortunately the Surveyor's department was understaffed for the amount of work they were undertaking, and mistakes were made. Symonds' designs had more stability than was desirable, with the result that they rolled excessively and therefore were poor gun platforms. Another problem with Symonds' ships was that they were very sensitive to the distribution of weights on board ship, such as the stores carried and consumed on a voyage.p66-87, Lambert "The Last Sailing Battlefleet"]

Symonds worked very closely with John Edye, an experienced and well-educated shipwright officer. Edye was responsible for the details of structure and construction. The ships that Symonds and Edye designed had far more iron in their structure than the previous generation of ships designed by Seppings.

First Rates of 120 Guns (three-deckers)

* "Royal Albert" class (Lang) 3-decker, 120 guns
** "Royal Albert" 120 (1854) – Laid down 1844, converted to screw 1852-4 p170, Lyons, "The Sailing Navy List"] p128, Lambert, "Battleships in Transition"]
* "Duke of Wellington" class (Surveyors Department) improved "Queen", 3-deckers, 120 guns
** "Windsor Castle" 120 (1852) – Laid down 1849, converted to screw 131-guns 1852, renamed "Duke of Wellington" p127-8, Lambert, "Battleships in Transition"]
** "Marlborough" 120 (1855) – Laid down 1850, converted to screw 131-guns 1853-5
** "Royal Sovereign" 120 (1857) – Laid down 1849, converted to screw 1855-57
** "Prince of Wales" 120 (1860) – Laid down 1848, converted to screw 1856-60

First Rates of 110 Guns (three-deckers)

* "Queen" class (Symonds & Edye) 3-decker 110 guns
** "Queen" 116 (1839) – ex-"Royal Frederick", laid down 1833, converted to screw 2-decker 1858-9 p135-6, Lambert "Battleships in Transition"]
** "Victoria" 116 (1858) – Laid down 1844, renamed "Windsor Castle" 1855, converted to screw 1857-8 p129, Lambert "Battleships in Transition"]
** "Frederick William" 116 (1860) – ex-"Royal Frederick", laid down 1841, converted to screw 2-decker 1859-60
** "Algiers" - ordered 1833, but not begun, cancelled 11 Dec 1834. p171, Lyons, "The Sailing Navy List"]
** "Royal Sovereign" - ordered 1832, probably not begun, cancelled 1838.

econd Rates of 90 Guns (two-deckers)

* "Albion" class (Symonds & Edye)
** "Albion" 90 (1842) - Laid down 1839. A design error led to the main deck in "Albion" being unusually low. [p72, Lambert "The last Sailing Battlefleet"] Converted to screw 1860-1 p135, Lambert "Battleships in Transition"]
** "Aboukir" 91 (1848) - Laid down 1840, converted to screw 1856-8
** "Exmouth" 91 (1854) - Laid down 1841, converted to screw 1853-4
** "Saint Jean D'Acre" - Ordered 1844 but not begun, cancelled 1845
** "Hannibal" - Ordered 1839, probably not begun, cancelled 1846
* "Princess Royal" class (Edye) modified "Albion" class
** "Princess Royal" 91 (1853) - Laid down 1841, converted to screw 1853 p131, Lambert "Battleships in Transition"]
** "Hannibal" 91 (1854) - Laid down 1848, converted to screw 1854 p172, Lyons "The Sailing Navy List"]
* "Algiers" class (Edye "or" Committee of Reference) modified "Albion" class
** "Algiers" 91 (1854) - Laid down 1848, converted to screw 1852-4 p130, Lambert "Battleships in Transition"]
* "Caesar" class (Committee of Reference) modified "Rodney" class
** "Caesar" 91 (1853) - Laid down 1848, converted to screw 1852-3

econd Rates of 80 Guns (two-deckers)

* "Vanguard" class (Symonds & Edye)
** "Vanguard" 78 (1835) - Laid down 1833, BU 1875
** "Goliath" 80 (1842) - Laid down 1834, converted to screw 1856-7 p137, Lambert "Battleships in Transition"]
** "Superb" 80 (1842) - Laid down 1838, lent as accommodation ship for Turkish naval crews of ships building on the Thames 1864, by 1866 returned to ordinary reserve, BU 1869
** "Meeanee" 60 (1848) - ex-"Madras", laid down 1841, converted to screw 1852-3
** "Collingwood" 80 (1841) - Laid down 1835, converted to screw 1860-1
** "Centurion" 80 (1844) - Laid down 1839, converted to screw 1854-5
** "Mars" 80 (1848) - Laid down 18395, converted to screw 1855-6
** "Lion" 80 (1847) - Laid down 1840, converted to screw 1858-9
** "Majestic" 80 (1853) - Laid down 1841, converted to screw 1852-3
** "Colossus" 80 (1848) - Laid down 1843, converted to screw 1854-5
** "Irresistible" 80 (1859) - Laid down 1849, converted to screw 1855-9
* Modified "Vanguard" class (Admiralty alteration of Symonds & Edye design)
** "Brunswick" 80 (1855) - Laid down 1847, converted to screw 1854-5 p173, Lyons "The Sailing Navy List"]

* "Orion" class (Edye & Watts)
** "Orion" 80 (1854) - Laid down 1850, converted to screw 91-guns 1852-4
** "Hood" 80 (1859) - Laid down 1849, converted to screw 91-guns 1856-9
** "Edgar" 80 (-) never laid down

* "Sans Pareil" class - lines of ex-French "Sans Pareil" captured in 1795, though structurally different
** "Sans Pareil" 80 (1851) - Laid down 1845, converted to screw 70-guns 1849-51 p138, Lambert "Battleships in Transition"]

Third Rates of 70 Guns (two-deckers)

* "Boscawen" class (Symonds & Edye)
** "Boscawen" 70 (1844) - Built from frames originally made for another ship, drill ship at Southampton 1862, to the Tyne as a hulk 1874 and renamed "Wellesley", burnt and BU 1914
** "Cumberland" 70 (1842) - Laid down 1836, sheer hulk at Sheerness 1863, training ship in the Clyde for the Clyde Industrial Training Ship Association 1869, destroyed by fire 1889

List of unarmoured steam ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1847-61)

"Ships have been listed by class as in Lambert." [Lambert, Andrew "Battleships in Transition, the Creation of the Steam Battlefleet 1815-1860", published Conway Maritime Press, 1984. ISBN 0 85177 315 X]

hips converted to steam ships-of-the-line

* "Duke of Wellington" class 3-deckers, 131 guns
** "Duke of Wellington" 131 (1852) – ex-"Windsor Castle", laid down 1849, converted to screw 1852, receiving ship Portsmouth 1863, sold 1902 for BU
** "Marlborough" 131 (1855) – Laid down 1850, converted to screw 1853-5, receiving ship Portsmouth 1878, renamed "Vernon II" 1904, sold 1824, capsized off Brighton while on tow to the breakers Oct 1924
** "Royal Sovereign" 121 (1857) – Laid down 1849, converted to screw 1855-57, converted to turret ship 1864, sold for BU 1885
** "Prince of Wales" 121 (1860) – Laid down 1848, converted to screw 1856-60, renamed "Britannia" to replace original ship of that name as training ship for boys in the river Dart 1869, hulked 1909, sold for BU 1914

* "Royal Albert" class (Lang) 3-decker, 121 guns
** "Royal Albert" 121 (1854) – Laid down 1844, converted to screw 1852-4, sold 1883 for BU

* "Windsor Castle" class 3-decker, 102 guns, laid down as "Queen" class 116 guns
** "Windsor Castle" 102 (1858) - ex-"Victoria", laid down 1844, converted to screw 1857-8, no sea-service, renamed "Cambridge" and hulked as gunnery training ship Devonport 1869, sold 1908

* "Orion" class 2-deckers, 91 guns, laid down as 80 gun ships
** "Orion" 91 (1854) - BU 1867
** "Hood" 91 (1859) - Sold 1888/1904
** "Edgar" 80 (-) never laid down

* "Caesar" class 2-decker, 91 guns
** "Caesar" 91 (1853) - Sold 1870

* "Algiers" class 2-decker, 91 guns, improved "Albion" class
** "Algiers" 91 (1854) - Sold 1870

* "Princess Royal" class 2-deckers, 91 guns, laid down as "Albion" class
** "Princess Royal" 91 (1853) - Sold 1872
** "Hannibal" 91 (1854) - Sold 1904

* "Rodney" class 2-deckers, 91 guns
** "Rodney" 91 (1833) - Converted to screw 1860, BU 1882
** "Nile" 91 (1830) - Converted to screw 1854, burnt 1956
** "London" 91 (1840) - Converted to screw 1858, sold 1884

* "Nelson" class 2-decker, 91 guns, originally "Nelson" class 3-decker 120 guns
** "Nelson" 91 (1814) - Laid down as 120-gunner. Converted to steam and cut down to 2-decker 1859-60. 1867, fitted as schoolship for New South Wales. Sold 1898. BU 1928. No service as sail or steam line-of-battle ship

* "Royal George" class 2-deckers, 89 guns, originally "Caledonia" class 3-decker 120 guns
**"Prince Regent" 89 (1823) - cut down to 92 gun 2 decker 1841-7, converted to screw 1860-61, BU 1873
**"Royal George" 89 (1827) - converted to steam 120-gun 3-decker 1852-53, poop and forecastle removed Dec 1854, making her 102 gun 3-decker, cut down to 89 gun 2-decker 1860, sold 1875

* "Saint George" class 2-deckers, 89 guns, originally broadened "Caledonia" class 3-decker 120 guns
** "St George" 89 (1840) - Sold 1883
** "Royal William" 89 (1833) - Burnt 1899
** "Neptune" 89 (1827) - sold 1875
** "Waterloo" 120 (1833) - converted 1859, renamed "Conqueror" 1862, 1877 renamed "Warspite" and served as a training ship at Greenhithe/Woolwich. Burnt 1918.
** "Trafalgar" 91 (1841) - Sold 1906

* "Albion" class 2-deckers, 91 guns, originally "Albion" class 2-deckers 90 guns
** "Albion" 91 (1842) - Converted to screw 1861, BU 1884
** "Aboukir" 91 (1848) - Sold 1878
** "Exmouth" 91 (1854) - Sold 1905

* "Queen" class 2-deckers, 86 guns, originally "Queen" class 3-decker 120 guns
** "Queen" 86 (1839) - Converted to screw 2-decker 1858-9, BU 1871
** "Frederick William" 86 (1860) Converted to screw 2-decker 1859-60, renamed "Worcester" 1876 and became training ship at Greenhithe for the Thames Marine Officers Training Society, sold 1948, foundered 1948, raised and BU 1953

* "Cressy" class 2-decker, 80 guns
** "Cressy" 80 (1853) - Sold 1867

* "Majestic" class 2-deckers, 80 guns, originally "Vanguard" class 2-deckers 80 guns
** "Goliath" 80 (1842) - Converted to screw 1857, burnt 1875
** "Collingwood" 80 (1841) - Converted to screw 1861, sold 1867
** "Centurion" 80 (1844) - Converted to screw 1855/56, sold 1870
** "Mars" 80 (1848) - Converted to screw 1855, sold 1929
** "Lion" 80 (1847) - Converted to screw 1859, sold 1905
** "Majestic" 80 (1853) - BU 1868
** "Meeanee" 80 (1848) - Laid down as "Madras" 80. Converted to screw 1857, BU 1906
** "Colossus" 80 (1848) - Converted to screw 1854, sold 1867
** "Brunswick" 80 (1855) - Sold 1867
** "Irresistible" 80 (1859) - Sold 1894

* "Bombay" class 2-decker, 80 guns, ex-"Canopus" class
** "Bombay" 84 (1828) - Converted to screw 1861, burnt 1864

* "Sans Pareil" class 2-decker, 70 guns
** "Sans Pareil" 81 (1851) - Sold 1867

* "Blenheim" class 2-deckers, 60 guns blockships, ex-74s
** "Ajax" 60 (1809) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship, 1847, BU 1864
** "Blenheim" 60 (1813) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1847, hulked at Portsmouth, BU 1865
** "Edinburgh" 60 (1811) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1852, sold 1866
** "Hogue" 60 (1811) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1848, BU 1865

* "Cornwallis" class 2-deckers, 60 guns blockships, ex-74s
** "Cornwallis" 60 (1813) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854-55, hulked as a jetty at Sheerness 1865, renamed "Wildfire" 1916 as base ship, BU 1957
** "Hastings" 60 (1819) – ex-74, purchased from East India Company in 1819, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1855, Coastguard 1857, coal hulk 1870, sold 1885 p292, Lyons, "The Sailing Navy List"]
** "Hawke" 60 (1820) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854-55, BU 1865
** "Pembroke" 60 (1812) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1855, hulked as base ship Chatham 1873, renamed "Forte" 1890 as receiving hulk, then "Pembroke" again 1891, sold 1905
** "Russell" 60 (1822) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854-55, Coastguard ship Sheerness 1858, BU 1865

hips laid down as steam ships-of-the-line

*"Victoria" class, 3-deckers, 121 guns
** "Victoria" 121 (1859) - Sold 1892
** "Howe" 110 (1860) - Renamed "Impregnable". Sold 1921

*"Saint Jean D'Acre" class 2-decker, 101 guns
** "St Jean d'Acre" 101 (1853) - Sold 1875

*"Conqueror" class 2-deckers, 101 guns
** "Conqueror" 101 (1855) - Wrecked 1861
** "Donegal" 101 (1858) - Renamed "Vernon" 1886, sold 1925

* "Duncan" class 2-deckers, 101 guns
** "Duncan" 101 (1859) - Sold 1910
** "Gibraltar" 101 (1860) - Renamed "Grampian" 1888, sold 1899

*"Agamemnon" class 2-decker, 91 guns
** "Agamemnon" 91 (1852) - Sold 1870

*"James Watt" class 2-deckers, 91 guns
** "James Watt" 91 (1853) Sold 1875
** "Victor Emanuel" 91 (1855) - ex-"Repulse". Sold 1899
** "Edgar" 91 (1858)
** "Hero" 91 (1858) - Sold 1871

*"Renown" class 2-deckers, 91 guns
** "Revenge" 91 (1859) - BU 1923
** "Renown" 91 (1857) - Sold 1870
** "Atlas" 91 (1860) - BU 1904
** "Anson" 91 (1860) - BU 1904

*"Defiance" class 2-decker, 91 guns
** "Defiance" 91 (1861) - Sold 1931

*"Bulwark" class 2-deckers, 91 guns
** "Bulwark" 91 (-) suspended almost complete 1861, BU 1873
** "Robust" 91 (-) laid down as "Duncan" class, suspended almost complete 1861, BU 1872
** "Repulse" ordered to be converted to ironclad 1866
** "Zealous" ordered to be converted to ironclad 1864
** "Royal Alfred" ordered to be converted to ironclad 1861
** "Royal Oak" ordered to be converted to ironclad as half-sister of Prince Consort class 1861
** "Triumph" ordered to be converted to Prince Consort class ironclad 1861 and completed as "Prince Consort"
** "Ocean" ordered to be converted to Prince Consort class ironclad 1861
** "Caledonia" ordered to be converted to Prince Consort class ironclad 1861
** "Blake", ordered but never laid down. Cancelled 1863.
** "Kent", ordered but never laid down. Cancelled 1863.
** "Pitt", ordered but never laid down. Cancelled 1863.

List of ironclad warships of the Royal Navy (1860–1882)

ea-going ironclads (1860–1882)

* "Warrior" class broadside ironclads
** "Warrior" (1860) - Preserved Portsmouth
** "Black Prince" (1861) - Renamed "Emerald" 1903, renamed "Impregnable III" 1910, sold for BU 1923
* "Defence" class broadside ironclads
** "Defence" (1861)
** "Resistance" (1861)
* "Hector" class broadside ironclads
** "Hector" (1862)
** "Valiant" (1863)
* "Achilles" (1863) broadside ironclad
* "Minotaur" class broadside ironclads
** "Minotaur" (1863)
** "Agincourt" (1865)
** "Northumberland" (1866)
* "Prince Consort" class broadside ironclads (converted from "Bulwark" class 2-deckers)
** "Prince Consort" (1862) (ex-Triumph")
** "Caledonia" (1862)
** "Ocean" (1862)
* "Royal Oak" (1862) broadside ironclad (converted from "Bulwark" class 2-decker)
* "Royal Alfred" (1864) central-battery ironclad (converted from "Bulwark" class 2-decker)
* "Research" (1863) central-battery ironclad
* "Enterprise" (1864) central-battery ironclad
* "Favorite" (1864) central-battery ironclad
* "Zealous" (1864) central-battery ironclad (converted from "Bulwark" class 2-decker)
* "Repulse" (1868) central-battery ironclad (converted from "Bulwark" class 2-decker)
* "Lord Clyde" class broadside ironclads
** "Lord Clyde" (1864)
** "Lord Warden" (1865)
* "Pallas" (1865) central-battery ironclad
* "Bellerophon" (1865) central-battery ironclad
* "Penelope" (1867) central-battery ironclad
* "Hercules" (1868) central-battery ironclad - Sold for BU 1932
* "Monarch" (1868) masted turret-ship
* "Captain" class masted turret-ship
** "Captain" (1869) - Sank 1870
* "Audacious" class central-battery ironclads
** "Audacious" (1869)
** "Invincible" (1869)
** "Iron Duke" (1870)
** "Vanguard" (1870)
* "Swiftsure" class central-battery ironclads
** "Swiftsure" (1870) - Sold for BU 1908
** "Triumph" (1870) - Sold for BU 1921
* "Sultan" (1870) central-battery ironclad
* "Devastation" class mastless turret-ship
** "Devastation" (1871) - Sold for break up (BU) 1908
** "Thunderer" (1872) mastless turret-ship - Sold for BU 1909
* "Alexandra" (1875) central-battery ironclad - Sold for BU 1908
* "Temeraire" (1876) central-battery ironclad with barbettes
* "Superb" class (intended for Ottoman Empire) central-battery ironclads
** "Superb" (launched as "Hamidieh", renamed) (1875)
** (Ottoman "Messudieh")
* "Neptune" (1874) (ex-"Independencia") masted turret-ship - Sold for BU 1903
* "Dreadnought" (1875) mastless turret-ship - Sold for BU 1908
* "Inflexible" (1876) central citadel turret-ship - Sold for BU 1903
* "Ajax" class central citadel turret-ships
** "Agamemnon" (1879) - BU 1903
** "Ajax" (1880) - Sold for BU 1904

Coastal service ironclads

* "Royal Sovereign" (1862) turret-ship (converted from "Duke of Wellington" class 3-decker)
* "Prince Albert" (1864) turret-ship
* "Scorpion" class masted turret-ships
** "Scorpion" (1863)
** "Wivern" (1863
* "Cerberus" class turret-ships
** "Cerberus" (1868) (Victoria)
** "Magdala" (1870) (India)
* "Abyssinia" (1870) turret-ship
* "Glatton" (1871) turret-ship
* "Hotspur" (1870) turret-ship
* "Rupert" (1872) turret-ship - Sold for BU 1907
* "Belleisle" class (intended for Ottoman Empire) central battery ships
** "Belleisle" (launched as "Peki-Shereef", renamed) (1876)
** "Orion" (planned name: "Boordhi-Zaffer") (1879)
* "Conqueror" class turret-ships
** "Conqueror" (1881) - Sold for BU 1907
** "Hero" (1885) - BU

Notes

References

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"For subsequent capital ships of the Royal Navy, please see List of battleships of the Royal Navy."